Message-Id: <199706251135.MAA18096@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk>
From: Robin Faichney <r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk>
To: "'memetics'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Being a Human Being, Memetics and Complexity Science
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:37:00 +0100
Mario Vaneechoutte wrote:
>Enzymes recognize only a specific pattern among a myriad of
>possible ones...
>One could say that this is experience, whereby experience is
>defined as a pattern recognition event or as the event of pattern
>matching... As such this may provide a theoretical basis
>for the suggestion of Chalmers (discussing the 'Hard Problem of
>Consciousness') that experience should be some basic characteristic.
I think, to help with the Hard Problem, you would have to
suggest a subjective aspect to the event: what is it like
to be an enzyme recognizing a pattern? Or rather, is it
like anything? It is the basis of subjectivity that is the
real problem.
Robin Faichney
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