On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > You assume that intelligence only comes from brains. >
Only a fool would not assume that and I am not a fool. > > It is true that drugs that make brains less intelligent make them less > conscious. But it might not be true of, for example Watson, because > Watson's intelligence depends on accessing an huge database (the web). > Although much of his knowledge originally came from the internet the Jeopardy champagne Watson did not have internet access,all it had to relay on was it's internal memory. > If you cut off its access it would be much less intelligent, it would be > like a scholar whose library was taken away. > The correct analogue would be a scholar who's memory had been totally erased, in which case he would no longer be a scholar; and without language his incoherent grunts would no longer be judged as being very intelligent behavior by most. > > The scholar is not less conscious > I can't prove it of course, I can't prove anything about consciousness, but nevertheless I believe that someone with no memory would be less conscious, far less conscious, because there would be far fewer things for him to be conscious of. 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.
