Peter Jone swrites: > > What I meant was, if a computer program can be associated with > > consciousness, then a rigid and deterministic computer program can also > > be associated with consciousness - > > > That doesn't follow. Comutationalists don't > have to believe any old programme is conscious. > It might be the case that only an indeterministic > one will do. A deterministic programme could > be exposed as a programme in a Turing Test.
Then you're saying something strange and non-physical happens to explain why a program is conscious on the first run when it passes the Turing test but not on the second run when it deterministically repeats all the physical states of the first run in response to a recording of your keystrokes from the first run. Stathis Papaioannou _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
