On 12/1/2017 4:46 PM, David Nyman wrote:
On 2 December 2017 at 00:06, Brent Meeker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 12/1/2017 3:48 PM, David Nyman wrote:Another aspect of this is that if, in imagination, you progressively reduce the duration of your effective short term memory, at some point you will intuit that you have become effectively 'unconscious', or at least un-self-conscious, as you will be unable to imagine formulating an articulate thought or possibly even assembling a coherent series of sense impressions or intuitions.Including the coherent thought that you have become effectively 'unconscious'.Yes indeed. Of course you realised that I meant "at some point you will intuit" only with reference to the relevant point in the thought experiment, not to the imagined situation itself. In the latter case my contention was that "at some (i.e. the corresponding) point" you would in effect have become incapable of coherently intuiting even the thought of your 'lost consciousness', as you suggest.
Jeff Hawkins discusses this in his book "On Intelligence". He calls his model of intelligence memory+prediction and it is based more on brain neurophysiology and research than on computation (although he's a computer guy, inventor the Palm Pilot).
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