On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 7:07 PM Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
*> So do you have nothing to say about coma patients who've later woken up > and said they were conscious? Or people under general anaesthetic who > later report being gruesomely aware of the surgery they were getting? > Should we ignore those reports? Or admit that consciousness is worth > considering independently from its effects on outward behavior?* > If something is behaving intelligently I am very confident (although not 100% confident) that it is conscious, however if something is not behaving intelligently I am far less certain it is not conscious because it may be incapable of moving or it may simply be trying to deceive me for reasons of its own. Observing behavior is not a perfect tool for assessing consciousness but is the best we have and the best we'll ever have so it will just have to do. Even the examples you present in your post all come from observing behavior, so a certain degree of uncertainty will always be with us. 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv34ToPW5AtfWK%3D3d1rNnK5FSKG_4VDh-%2BR-0%2B%2BRxpmqEg%40mail.gmail.com.
