On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because we are human and we know that we are conscious so we can > assume that other things which resemble us are also human and also > conscious. I wouldn't assume any such thing for a machine. There is no way to be sure other humans are conscious. In fact, even you might not be conscious. I assume you think you're conscious, but you would still think that if you had a consciousness-destroying (according to you) brain lesion that left your neurons functioning normally, such as inactivation of DNA. It might have happened a minute ago to most of your brain; how could you know that it had not? -- 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 everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
