Does Graziano's attention D O something? or is it just a thought-thing?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:52 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/8/2015 12:17 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >> Brent, >> do you (or the authors) really think Ccness - as we use the term - a >> (deeply) HUMAN (or 'thinking' animal?) phenomenon? Are we so special? >> > > No. I think we are special only in our development of language that has > given us the ability to think more abstractly than other animals. I see > Graziano's theory as pointing to how we might make autonomous machines > conscious and why it would be advantageous to do so. I certainly doesn't > imply humans are unique. In fact it implies that there may be "higher" > levels of consciousness realized by merging the consciousness of people and > machines; which is contrary to Bruno's idea that consciousness is logically > a binary property. > > Brent > "We are the Dyslexic of Borg. Futility is persistent. Your ass will be > laminated." > > I came to believe that 'everything' (list, or not) is a wider >> connectivity than what we call 'living' (you may include plants as well) >> and is phenomena of the complexity total we call "Nature" (or: existence). >> If we take such wider stance, my speculations arrived at a complex >> interconnectedness based upon 'relations' all over. (No specifics what to >> call a relation - or how to respond to them). >> Those relations interplay with whatever 'happens' with/out our knowledge. >> I do not find it the ultimate (highest) format of Nature when we humans >> THINK. >> Granted: we have no indication to go further than such. >> HUMAN Ccness a 'subchapter"? >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
