On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 7:25 PM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> You don't have great logical skills, do you ? Is the other way around: > If you find a conscious entity, it must be smart.* *I'm curious, how do you know when you have found a conscious entity? I'll tell you the test that I use, an entity is conscious when it is behaving intelligently. That's why I believe that my fellow human beings are conscious some of the time but not all of the time, not when they're asleep or under anesthesia or dead, because when they are in those states they are not behaving very intelligently. * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> civ -- 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/CAJPayv1QMQz7WRk0%3DDsiY6NGLtEk8RemOGjNN0VpD5ORN5t5JA%40mail.gmail.com.

