On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think John's post implied that "conscious" was another word for > "intelligence". I think his position is that a being could be conscious > without being intelligent (which would be consistent with "aware of one's > self and surroundings"), but not vice versa. >
Exactly. > I don't think "being conscious" is a simple unitary attribute. I think > there are different kinds of "being conscious" > Yes and I have rock solid, I would even go so far as to call it perfect, evidence that the above is true; but unfortunately that evidence is available only to me. You may have a corresponding sort of evidence, I strongly suspect that you do, but I don't know it for a fact. 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.
