Terren, All human babies are automatically consciousness. They are conscious of whatever input data they have. I don't see the point of your question which is why I didn't answer before...
Edgar On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:42:24 PM UTC-5, Terren Suydam wrote: > > On the contrary, I replied with a question that went unanswered. > > It was a question about whether a human baby, fed a stream of virtual > sense data as in the movie The Matrix, could be considered conscious in > your theory, as you seemed to suggest that consciousness was a property of > reality, as a function somehow of "ontological energy". > > Terren > On Jan 8, 2014 1:49 PM, "Edgar L. Owen" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Telmo, >> >> Thanks for the link but see my new topic "A theory of consciousness" of a >> few days ago which no one has even commented on and which is much more >> reasonable and explanatory. >> >> Edgar >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 12:57:37 PM UTC-5, telmo_menezes wrote: >>> >>> In case you haven't seen it... >>> >>> http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219 >>> >>> Seems like an attempt to recover materialism, which strikes me as >>> somewhat unexpected from Tegmark. Am I missing something? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Telmo. >>> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

