Dan, I don't understand the argument that consciousness is useless
without free will. What is consciousness? An awareness of one's
internal state. I would hold that "zombies"...that is, people who act
just like us, but aren't conscious...are impossible. In order to act
like a human one MUST be conscious. There is no difference between a
simulation of consciousness and consciousness, they are the same thing.
Yes, it is possible to have unconscious organisms...look around and we
find that very few organisms on earth are even close to being
conscious. But a being that acts "as if" it were conscious IS
conscious.
How could a creature act like a human being but not be conscious?
Explain this to me...
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Darryl
Think Galactically -- Act Terrestrially
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