On 9/21/2014 4:02 PM, John Clark wrote:
Or maybe I'm wrong and the sequence of "what caused that?" questions goes on forever. But it doesn't matter because one thing we do know for sure is that certain types of brain activity causes consciousness; we may not know how it manages to do it but we do know for a fact that it does.
It does matter, because it's relevant to the question of whether we can create artificial consciousness; whether we will necessarily create consciousness if we create artificial intelligence and whether we can create different kinds or degrees of consciousness.
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