Decision Making by Inanimate Objects?
There are certain materials (some metal oxides, I think) which adapt to external stimulus quite like sentient beings.
Does anyone know of such materials?
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the word "like" is your big mistake here. They react in a strict one-dimensional sense. No, it does not automatically uplift them into "THEY'RE ALIVE" because thats not how analogies work.
Sorry, but what they are doing is not 'stimulus-response' -Its physics. You mistake the label (stimulus) and the stimulus-response idea, for equalities. They are analogies.
A bi-metallic strip "responds" to temperature change by curling. Its "stimulus" is temperature. Its "response" is to curl. The basic mechanism is not sentience, its differential thermal expansion.
Sorry, but what they are doing is not 'stimulus-response' -Its physics. You mistake the label (stimulus) and the stimulus-response idea, for equalities. They are analogies.
A bi-metallic strip "responds" to temperature change by curling. Its "stimulus" is temperature. Its "response" is to curl. The basic mechanism is not sentience, its differential thermal expansion.
Spinoza understood thought and extension were unified. A change in extension is a change in thought and vv.