On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > I also believe that some isolated tribes assume everything is conscious. >
If they're right then that certainly solves the consciousness problem and we can move on to solving the REALLY hard problem, figuring out why some things behave intelligently. > >> Any logical system must start with unproven axioms and the fewer and > the simpler the better, and I can't think of a better axiom to start with > than that one. > > > Why? All of current science works fine without it. Its only function is > religious. > But as I said before, I personally would not work fine if I thought I was the only conscious being in the universe and I very much doubt that you would either; unless of course you are not conscious now and never have been. >> Do you know for sure that I am conscious? >> > > > No. > > >> For that matter all you know about me is the ASCII sequences I have >> produced, so do you even know for sure that I'm not a computer? >> > > > No. > EXCELLENT! Congratulations your views are consistent, and thus your doubts about the consciousness of a intelligent computer must not be any greater than your doubts about the consciousness of a intelligent human being. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
