> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2001 7:19 a.m. > > I would say to this that consciousness is a property of a program, not > of a computer. When a computer runs a program, the computer does not > thereby become conscious.
So a person isn't conscious either, presumably, since a person is not a program (at least, not unless everything is). Charles