On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 6:22:39 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 2:38 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected] 
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> *> An alternative is that consciousness (or experientiality - in the 
>> philosophers' jargon) is intrinsic (more jargon) to matter. A change in 
>> matter would indeed change consciousness.*
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> Because a change in matter changes a computation and a change in 
> computation changes intelligence and a change in intelligence changes 
> consciousness.
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>  John K Clark
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One can have a system that consists of only information processing: It has 
a "knowledge base" like Wikipedia, can converse on any topic, make jokes, 
can learn stuff reading online news, and so on. That system has* 
informational intelligence *- but does not have "experience". True 
intelligence is *experiential intelligence*.

- pt

 

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