tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post885812151386793751..comments2024-03-21T03:55:51.565-07:00Comments on Omniorthogonal: Crazyismmtravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-78133880440875599722012-03-16T20:14:44.817-07:002012-03-16T20:14:44.817-07:00Schwitzgebel's description of a nation sounds ...Schwitzgebel's description of a nation sounds more like a state, which has some degree of coherent agency.<br /><br />Speaking of Godel, I'm reminded of the conscious ant colony from G.E.B. The general idea (if not applied to actual ant colonies) seemed sensible enough to me, humans are collections of cells*. Like a lot of materialists, I don't find humans that unique and "consciousness" talk seems poorly specified.<br />*Robert Nozick once <a href="http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2006/09/varied_reiterat.html" rel="nofollow">challenged Austrian economists</a> to explain why they didn't go beyond "methodological individualism" to the level of the neuron. The proper response is not Lachmann's, but that of biologists who explain why they don't just work at the level of chemistry.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-42450526065645912982012-03-16T09:55:11.049-07:002012-03-16T09:55:11.049-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.mtravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-11612728658167164472012-03-16T09:55:10.473-07:002012-03-16T09:55:10.473-07:00Interesting question actually, the tools of collec...Interesting question actually, the tools of collective intelligence (markets, politics, journalism, academic socieites, Google, etc) seem to be of highly variable quality. Obviously they could work a lot better, but they do seem to also produce the occasional smarts.mtravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-46814947046149579062012-03-15T22:15:46.748-07:002012-03-15T22:15:46.748-07:00If the US is conscious, what is its IQ?If the US is conscious, what is its IQ?gcochranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17752921901568851463noreply@blogger.com