> On 5 Nov 2018, at 02:56, Martin Abramson <martinabrams...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Consciousness is a program.
Consciousness might be related to a program, but is not a program, that would identify a first person notion with a third person notion, like a glass of bear and its price. > It explores whatever entity it finds itself within and becomes that > creature's awareness of the world. For humans it becomes the identity or soul > which responds to anything that affects the organism. It can be uploaded into > a data bank but otherwise it dissipates with death. How? We can attach a soul to a machine, but a machine cannot attach its soul to any particular computations, only to the infinity of (relative) computations, and there is at least aleph_zero one, of not a continuum. Bruno > > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 7:49 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com > <mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 7:22 PM Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com > <mailto:cloudver...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > By "experience", philosophers (like Galen Strawson, Philip Goff) mean that > > which you have within yourself right now: the awareness that [...] > > Awareness? But awareness is just another word for consciousness, so when you > say "It's that experience (not just information) that needs processing to > produce consciousness" you're saying that to produce consciousness you must > process consciousness. I don't find that very helpful. > > I assume I can be outsmarted by Watson on Jeopardy! > > Then Watson't intelligence isn't very pseudo. > > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
