Re: consciousness based on information or computation?

1999-02-13 Thread Wei Dai
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 07:29:15PM -0500, Jacques M Mallah wrote: > I do not believe your assumptions are simpler than mine. A string > is less complicated than a computation, but it is a greater leap from a > string to conciousness, and the illusions of dynamics and decisions, than > it is

Re: consciousness based on information or computation?

1999-02-13 Thread GSLevy
In a message dated 99-02-13 20:22:54 EST, you write: > Either strings can be concious, in > which case consciousness is just as complicated as strings are, or only > computations can be conscious, in which case consciousness is just as > complicated as computations are. It seems to me that to so