2018-01-04 6:57 GMT+01:00 Bruce Kellett <[email protected]>: > My abacus does not talk to me......... > > That would mean no computation are conscious at all... technically your abacus is turing complete (well it has to be large enough), so it could run a conscious computation... but that doesn't mean that computation could talk to you, for that it would also need an I/O system with our reality.
Regards, Quentin > Bruce > > > > On 29/12/2017 3:49 pm, John Clark wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> not all computations are conscious. > > > How do you know? > > > > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
