Hi Stathis Papaioannou Try to define consciousness. If you can't, how do you know that a computer is conscious ?
Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-24, 08:38:48 Subject: Re: Re: Zombieopolis Thought Experiment On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stathis Papaioannou > > You need a self or observer to be conscious, and computers > have no self. So they can't be conscious. > > Consciousness = a subject looking at, or aware of, an object. > > Computers have no subject. So where do you get the idea that computers have no self, no subject and can't be observers or be conscious? You may as well claim that women aren't conscious but just act as if they are conscious, like an advanced computer pretending to have a self. -- 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. -- 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.
