On 1/17/2014 9:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 17 Jan 2014, at 02:05, LizR wrote:
I just can't imagine how a programme could imitate a person convincingly for a long
time without being conscious.
Just a question: when we dream of people, we attribute consciousness to the people at
the time we dream, in the dream. They can be very convincing. Are not those people sort
of zombies? Is that not at least conceivable?
In that case you can imagine how a program (your brain) imitate person convincingly for
some time.
Or do you think those dreamed people are necessarily conscious subpart of your
self?
I don't think that's a sharp dichotomy. I think the people in my dream have a limited
consciousness which a part of mine, a consciousness of what's in the dream. But a dream
is itself an simulation of waking life and doesn't fool the dreamer indefinitely.
Brent
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