Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> 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. It was never conscious, and if anyonw concludede it was on the first run, they were mistaken. The TT is a rule-of-thumb for detecting, it does not magically endow consciousness. > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
