On 8 March 2015 at 09:33, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > I like Graziano's theory of consciousness. > > http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-consciousness-works/ > > I have generally been inclined to agree with JKC that natural selection > can't act on consciousness, only on intelligence; so consciousness is either > a necessary byproduct of intelligence or it's a spandrel. But under > Graziano's theory it's a way of augmenting or improving intelligence within > constraints of limited computational resources. So it would be subject to > natural selection. It also shows how to make intelligence machines without > consciousness (albeit less efficient ones).
Graziano equates consciousness with a model of the brain's state of attention, but why couldn't this be done by an unconscious machine? It's valid as psychological theory, but it does not address the Hard Problem. That's not necessarily a bad thing - there is more to be gained from investigating the Easy Problem. Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
