[Ham] But none of these devices has proprietary awareness of what it detects, records, or analyzes. It does not KNOW that it senses. Which is why conscious awareness cannot be reduced to digits, signals, and patterns.
I must say, though, it's extraordinary for me to be siding with Case in an exchange with Platt. Wonders never cease! [Case] Perhaps we almost agree. I am not convinced that awareness is necessarily limited to organic creatures. I think I agree with Magnus on this one. There is every reason to think that self aware artificial intelligences are not long in the future. I think it is even possible for the Internet to actually become self aware. But at the moment even the internet which connects millions of computers together all over the planet is simple and primitive compared to the number of neurons and connections made within the human brain. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
