On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:43:48PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > Lennart Nilsson wrote: > ... > > But my point is that this may come down to what we would mean by a computer > > being > > conscious. Bruno has an answer in terms of what the computer can prove. > > Jaynes (and > > probably John McCarthy) would say a computer is conscious if it creates a > > narrative > > of its experience which it can access as memory. > > > > Brent Meeker > > > > Humphrey says it has to have an evolutionary past. > > LN > > I've read some of Humphrey's books, but I don't recall that. What's his > argument? > Whats the citation? > > Brent Meeker >
Wasn't he the Machievellian Intelligence guy? If so, then MI is an evolutionary explanation, but a different one to say what Dennet gives in Consciousness Exaplined book. Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
