On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:49 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> So nobody could correctly judge consciousness of other persons before > 1859 because they couldn't assume Darwins' theory of evolution > But in 1859 EVERYBODY could and DID assume that if something behaved intelligently then it was conscious, that's why they thought their fellow human beings were conscious when they were not sleeping or dead. And nobody had any problem with that idea until computers came along, but after that some were disturbed by what the confluence of that idea and computers produced, so despite the fact that it was contrary to all logic they decided that it just can't be true. But reality is the way things are and it doesn't matter if you like it or not. John K Clark > (having never heard of it). That they were conscious and that other > people very similar to them behaved as they did when conscious told the > them absolutely nothing about whether those other people were conscious. I > suppose people were greatly relieved to learn that they were not alone in > being conscious when they read "On the Origin of Species by Natural > Selection". > > Brent > > -- > 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.
