On Dec 30, 6:35 pm, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 12/29/2011 4:11 PM, Pierz wrote:
> You think it is ludicrous that a Mars Rover is programmed to monitor the > state of its > battery, the temperature of its motors, the amount of memory available for > pictures, etc? > > Brent <sigh> Let's not go down that boringly overtrodden path, but agree to disagree on what constitutes consciousness. I disagree with David Deutsch that we could run a conscious entity on our laptop computer if we only understood consciousness better, but I agree with him that we do *not* understand it, and the Turing test is a bad one. But, as I stated in a remark to Bruno above, those who see no mind-body duality problem in the first place will never be persuaded of its existence, just as I will never be persuaded that wiring a sensor in the Mars Rover makes the machine conscious of its environment. -- 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.
