I know you directed the post to Dave. Obviously, you weren't talking to me. 8^) 
But I will again demonstrate my lack of manners and interrupt, anyway.

It's common to denigrate those who answer questions with questions. But my 
response to the scout would be: "Well, what did you EXPECT to happen?"

Give a man a fish ... yadda yadda.

On 5/5/19 10:53 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> So, imagine yourself talking to a group of boy (girl-) scouts.   You have 
> just demonstrated to them the phenomenon of Cellular Automaton #30 (or 
> whatever) bursting into seething dog vomit at iteration 10,601 (or whatever) 
> (or bursting out of seething dog vomit into grand pyramids of pyramids, ad 
> infinitum, what*/EVER!/*).  One of the scouts asks, “Professor Dave, why did 
> that happen then?”  And once you have explained that to them, please explain 
> to them how that explanation is not an adequate explanation of consciousness.

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