On 08 Mar 2015, at 10:26, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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.
I agree. And he eliminates the 'consciousness without attention',
which is important for many conscious states, and indeed most of those
close to "spiritual one".
That's not necessarily a bad thing - there is more to be
gained from investigating the Easy Problem.
OK.
Bruno
Stathis Papaioannou
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