From: *John Clark* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:27 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:/> / /You don't need an instrument that can give a clean yes/no answer to the presence of consciousness to develop scientific theories about consciousness. We can start with the observation that all normal healthy humans are conscious, and that rocks and other inert objects are not conscious and work from there to develop a science of consciousness, based on evidence from the observation of behaviour./But if it was all based on the observation of behavior then what you'd end up with is a scientific theory about intelligence not consciousness.
Not all behaviour is intelligent, just as not all behaviour is necessarily conscious. You would have to learn to tell the difference.
Bruce
John K Clark
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