On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 at 18:17, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> > wrote: > > > > I always have a hard time seeing consciousness as causal. > > > Why, where is the mystery? If external information didn't CAUSE your > consciousness to change you might as well be blind and deaf, and if > consciousness didn't CAUSE external things to change you might as well be > paralyzed from the neck down . > > I meant and in the second sense. Take an artificial neural network driving a car. Like me, you suspect it might be conscious -- but we know the full mechanism. We know it's a bunch of thresholds connected in a complex way, running on von neumann machine and so on. How is consciousness causing behavior ? > John K Clark > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
