On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:54 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Winston or whatever isn't immersed in an environment, >
Watson's brain is made of matter and it occupies time and space just as your brain does, the only difference is that Watson's brain is confined inside a metal box and your brain is confined inside a bone box. > or its environment only involves abstract relations. > And your relations are not abstract? Name one! > So I do have a better idea of who charlemagne was, > I very much doubt that is true but assuming for the sake of argument that it is I have a question for you: Given that Watson could easily beat you on any test on Charlemagne just what is "better" about your better idea? > I think that because there's no evidence whatsoever that Deep Blue etc > have feelings I think that too. More generally I think there is no evidence whatsoever that anybody or anything except John K Clark has feelings. But despite this lack of evidence I continue to believe that some other things do have feelings, at least when they're behaving intelligently, because I could not function if I believed I was the only conscious thing in the universe. 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
