On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 04:53:56PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > > I don't think consciousness is an all-or-nothing property. You have > to ask "Consciousness of what?" There's consciousness of > surroundings: sound, photons, temperature, chemical > concentrations.... There's consciousness of internal states. > Consciousness of sex. Consciousness of one's location. > Consciousness of one's status in a tribe. I think human-like > consciousness requires language of some kind. > > Brent
I would be happy with consciousness of surroundings. It seems to be the most basic of all the ones you mention there. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
