On 3/20/2018 5:35 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:27 PM, Bruce Kellett
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
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/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.
But then add in the observation that your consciousness and your
behavior are strongly correlated and you have a theory about
consciousness and intelligence.
Brent
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