On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:21 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with you vis a vis Craig. But I think functionalism may well allow > different kinds of consciousness (and I'm not clear that Bruno's version > does). That we "hear" an inner narration of our thoughts is probably an > evolutionary accident arising because it was efficient to utilize some of > the same brain structure used for hearing when thinking in language (c.f. > Julian Jaynes). If we were making an artificial intelligent being we could > chose to have separate hardware and software perform the perception and the > cogitation. Would that being be conscious? I'd say so. It could certainly > act consciously. Would it be conscious in the same way we are? No. > Similarly with vision and visual imagination. I'd say that if it produced the same outputs for the same inputs, it would be conscious in the same way. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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?hl=en.
