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StevenPinker @ edge.org
| Description | : | Individual Perceptions Are Different.
"I agree that the qualitative experience is not the key to understanding intelligence from a scientist's point of view. The scientifically tractable aspect of consciousness is not the fact that there are people or animals subjectively experiencing it, but the fact that some kinds of information are mutually accessible and others are not, and that there is therefore a portion of mental information processing that has a different status than the rest of it. That's one sense of consciousness: information that's accessible to a particular body of information-processing involved with the current environment, and which in humans can interface with the verbal apparatus." 3rd culture. What is your dangerous idea? We must be especially suspicious when the danger in a dangerous idea is to someone other than its advocate. Scientists, scholars and writers are members of a privileged elite. They may have an interest in promulgating ideas that justify their privileges, that blame or make light of society's victims, or that earn them attention for cleverness and iconoclasm... But don't the demands of rationality always compel us to seek the complete truth? Not necessarily. Rational agents often choose to be ignorant... Perhaps a similar logic would call for keeping socially harmful information out of the public sphere. GOTO DKeirsey GOTO EMach |
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