boneyard bill
Veteran Member
DBT writes:
None of the things you mentioned here are senses. Physical structures and senses are not the same thing at all. A physical structure doesn't see, hear, touch, feel, or taste. At best the physical structure transmits information to the organism.
Theoretically, information is all the organism needs. In other words, theoretically we could build a robot that would be perfectly functional without having any senses at all. All it needs in information. It doesn't information in the way that we receive it. It doesn't need the senses for functionality which raises yet another question in philosophy of mind. What is the function of consciousness?
We may not need the senses for our survival, but we have them nonetheless. So what purpose do they serve?
The senses are physical stuctures. Physical stuctures that absorb light, pressure waves, airborne molucules, lenses, rods, cones, etc, and convert this information into nerve impulses that are conveyed to the related neural networks, correlated and processed.
None of the things you mentioned here are senses. Physical structures and senses are not the same thing at all. A physical structure doesn't see, hear, touch, feel, or taste. At best the physical structure transmits information to the organism.
Theoretically, information is all the organism needs. In other words, theoretically we could build a robot that would be perfectly functional without having any senses at all. All it needs in information. It doesn't information in the way that we receive it. It doesn't need the senses for functionality which raises yet another question in philosophy of mind. What is the function of consciousness?
We may not need the senses for our survival, but we have them nonetheless. So what purpose do they serve?