> On 5 Nov 2018, at 02:56, Martin Abramson <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 7:22 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > 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 [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > 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 [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.
