From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consciousness, like many natural language terms,
is extremely polysemous
A formal definition of reflective consciousness
was given by me in a blog post a few days ago
http://goertzel.org/blog/blog.htm
-- Ben G
This is a great post BTW.
John K Clark wrote:
Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consciousness is the entity evaluating
And you evaluate something when you have conscious understanding of it.
No. The process of evaluation *is* the consciousness. Consciousness is
a process, not a thing.
a portion of itself
John K Clark wrote:
Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems to me the problem is
defining consciousness, not testing for it.
And it seems to me that beliefs of this sort are exactly the reason
philosophy is in such a muddle. A definition of consciousness is not
needed, in fact unless you're
John K Clark wrote:
And I will define consciousness just as soon as you define define.
Ah, but that is exactly my approach.
Thus, the subtitle I gave to my 2006 conference paper was Explaining
Consciousness by Explaining That You Cannot Explain it, Because Your
Explanation Mechanism is
--- Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John K Clark wrote:
Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems to me the problem is
defining consciousness, not testing for it.
And it seems to me that beliefs of this sort are exactly the reason
philosophy is in such a muddle. A
Richard Loosemore wrote:
John K Clark wrote:
And I will define consciousness just as soon as you define define.
Ah, but that is exactly my approach.
Thus, the subtitle I gave to my 2006 conference paper was Explaining
Consciousness by Explaining That You Cannot Explain it, Because Your
John K Clark wrote:
Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems to me the problem is
defining consciousness, not testing for it.
And it seems to me that beliefs of this sort are exactly the reason
philosophy is in such a muddle. A definition of consciousness is not
needed, in fact unless you're
Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it is exactly the lack of a clear definition
of what consciousness is supposed to be
And if we did have such a definition of consciousness I don't see how it
would help in the slightest in making an AI. The definition would be made
of words, and every one
And I will define consciousness just as soon as you define define.
John K Clark
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Hi,
On 9/15/06, Bruce LaDuke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Knowledge - That which is retained in a storage mechanism at any level
(individual, group, societal).
Is your definition of knowledge limited to what is provably true and
known facts or is the level of certainty/probability of the retained
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