On 8 June 2015 at 16:22, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems here that you've snuck an extra assumption into comp1. We know > that brains can be conscious, and we assume that computations can also be > conscious. But that doesn't mean that only computations can be conscious, > nor does it mean that brains are computations. These two latter statements > might be true, but they are not necessarily true, even given > computationalism. > I may not have phrased it very well, but comp1 is the assumption that consciousness is based on computation, and can't be created by anything else (at least that's comp1 in a simple form - actually, I believe it's the assumption that at some level physics is Turing emulable). On that basis, a brain must do computation (at some level), since it's conscious, and an AI could be conscious given the correct programme. (And what's wrong with "sneaked" ?) -- 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.
