Consciousness clearly requires feedback - read Hofstadter's I Am A Strange Loop
(http://www.amazon.com/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp/0465030793/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1212604343&sr=11-1)
Recordings of consciousness are not consciousness in the same way that a CD is
not music.
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From: Panu Horsmalahti
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:27 PM
Subject: **SPAM** Re: Are rocks conscious? (was RE: [agi] Did this message
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2008/6/4 John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Actually you are on to something. Since there are patterns in the rock,
molecular, granular, electronic, subatomic the rock has string of bits that
represent time frame samples of consciousness recordings. So I mean if they
were played with the right equipment in a certain way you might be able to
extract short consciousness clip recordings.
Hey wait a sec - is a string of bits that represents consciousness,
conscious? Or does there have to be a victrola. Does time have to be a
variable? Hm...
John
This is the conscious rainstorm argument, which says that if information
alone can create conscious experience then it can lead to 'absurd' results,
like only a tiny-tiny-ultra-tiny-tiny portion of conscious experience is
created by "real" brains.
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