In a message dated 11/1/00 12:16:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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(Personal hope for the future: we acheive "uploading" by 2050 or so and
physical exploration & short-term terraforming becomes moot; if I'm
wrong, I'm dead, so it doesn't much matter.)
Probably won't happen any time soon (next century or so) as near as I can get
from reading current books on consciousness. The key element to consciousness
may be having sensations. Consciousness is the second order representations
of sensation and how the body reacts to them "The Feeling of What Happens" -
Damaso. So unless a machine can have sensory input it will not be conscious.
Now this imput could be from any one of number of sensors but the result
would something that does not feel they we feel.
