On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> *elsewhere you have agreed that many data processing machines are not > conscious because they take no actions based on the data being true. * > I don't recall ever saying that! What I may have said is, something may be intelligent and thus conscious but I would have no way of knowing that unless it acted intelligently. Maybe a rock is processing data in some way that I don't understand and thus is conscious. But I doubt it. *> I think of the paramecium that swims to the left because the water is to > salty on the right as being conscious.* > Probably true. intelligence is not an all or nothing matter and I have fundamental evidence that the same is true for consciousness: I'm more conscious when I try to solve a calculus problem than I am when I'm about to fall asleep. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>c iccd -- 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/CAJPayv04NpaO1MO%3DP_CjsXBkJQ7uT3MbtUhP_%2BAprcmSK5XoSg%40mail.gmail.com.
