On 5/19/2015 6:47 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:54 PM, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 5/18/2015 9:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote:Not necessarily, just as an actor may not be conscious in the same way as me. But I suspect the Blockhead would be conscious; the intuition that a lookup table can't be conscious is like the intuition that an electric circuit can't be conscious. I don't see an equivalency between those intuitions. A lookup table has a bounded and very low degree of computational complexity: all answers to all queries are answered in constant time. While the table itself may have an arbitrarily high information content, what in the software of the lookup table program is there to appreciate/understand/know that information?What is there is there in a neural network? A computational state containing significant information content.
A lookup table has significant information content.
Integrated Information Theory makes some strides in explains this I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
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