A Panpsychist Hypothesis (General)

by David Turell , Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 00:31 (3600 days ago) @ dhw

dhw; We have always agreed on this, and of course you based your own decisions on the information you read. I have sufficient respect for people like Hawking and Dawkins to assume that they also based their decisions on the available information. I also agree that codes are developed by intelligence, but although information requires intelligence, intelligence also requires information if it is to function. Your first cause is intelligence in the form of pure energy.-But to follow my reasoning, you must envision that first cause as not a blank DVD with no information on board, but a DVD (intelligent energy)loaded with all the informaton needed to get the universe and life started-
> dhw: you may one day acknowledge the possibility that intelligent energy on its own, without information to work on, is a pretty meaningless concept. -I saw this idea of your coming andc answered it above. It is not a blank DVD-> dhw:This leaves us with the question of how intelligence without information might come into being. -Not my concept from the beginning, but my fault when I said there had to be information, I didn't make it clear that it had to exist within the universal intelligence. It was so obvious to me but not to you, and so I assumed it was understood. Babies are born with a potential intelligence to be developed, but it is developed by gaining information and learning how to use that information. I don't view the universal intelligence as a baby form.