--- Philip Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/30/06, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One good one: > > Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise > > qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and > the > > ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's > environment. > > (Block 2004). > > > > Compressed: Consciousness = intelligence + autonomy > > I don't think that definition says anything about intelligence or > autonomy. All it is is a lot of words that are synonyms for > consciousness, none of which really mean anything.
I think if you insist on an operational definition of consciousness you will be confronted with a disturbing lack of evidence that it even exists. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
