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Originally Posted by Tor  Yes you are right; for all practical purposes. But if they were satisfied with that they would never have written the book in the first place. |
Being not satisfied with FAPP doesn't imply the need for consciousness and Rosenblum and Kuttner agree it doesn't.
All Rosenblum and Kuttner mean by an "encounter" with consciousness is "to meet, usually unexpectedly."
That means it was surprising that someone even bothered to bring it up! Those "someones" probably
thought they had good reasons to bring it up (e.g. von Neumann, Wigner, etc.) but it doesn't mean they really had good reasons and they didn't. I wouldn't put much stock in what physicists say about consciousness because it's not their field of expertise and once you read what people in consciousness related field say then it really shows that physicists are "out of their league."
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