On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com>wrote:
>If consciousness has a survival value [...] Then consciousness must change behavior and the Turing Test works for consciousness as well as intelligence . > then surely omniscience, teleportation, or the ability to turn into a > diamond on command would have an even greater survival value. Yes, and if random mutation and natural selection could have produced any of those things (except perhaps for the diamond thing, the survival value is not obvious) in the 3 billion years available we would indeed have those abilities but apparently they were too hard to produce. John K Clark -- 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.
