On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:50 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe you're wrong to assume intelligence=>consciousness. That may > be an accident > If consciousness was just a lucky accident Evolution would ensure that it didn't exist for long. Conscious does not effect behavior (that's why the Turing Test doesn't work) so it doesn't enhance survival, so from Evolution's point of view it would be as useless as eyes are for cave animals, and it would disappear in a dozen generations or so due to genetic drift just as the eyes of cave animals did. > > of how carbon-based life developed intelligence. > So carbon atoms are conscious but silicon atoms are not. Well... I can't prove that's wrong but I really think it is. 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.
