Comment on : The Chinese Room Experiment article – Friday 12th March 2021

Comment on : The Chinese Room Experiment article – Friday 12th March 2021

I think the article I read was by John Horgan and I found it very straightforward and interesting. I wanted to make just a few comments.
Firstly, when we look at a tiny part of something and lose sight of the composition it is harmful to our beings because often we start to look at many things through that view. And I suspect for some, they can become depressed. The molecular world is a whole world but when we look at a tiny part we see mechanics. If we look at ourselves in little parts we also see mechanics.
In the future we will learn that a vast molecular body, not a small computer that is powered by electric current, but a vast molecular body that has essential particles that have joined, with access to enormous energy supplies and extreme temperature, is capable of achieving and maintaining consciousness.
Consciousness is in part, a sophisticated filing cabinet but the fIling cabinet works irrespective of the person’s awareness. It is essential to be made up of tiny components because it allows for a small part to fail but still often allows the object, person to still function, so perhaps if we think of things and all their tiny parts with that in mind, we won’t lose sight of the composition.
A group of people can see the same incident yet have their own unique reaction, a reaction that didn’t come from the filing cabinet but the processes that permitted them to express that reaction, did.
Fiona MacLeod (C)