--- Niels-Jeroen Vandamme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A thermostat perceives the temperature and acts on it. Is it conscious? > > Registering does not equal perceiving. I mean subjective experience.
That's a subjective view of perception. If an entity says "I feel cold", is it conscious? Or do we equate consciousness with language? That definition works as long as we don't have AI. > One thing I'm almost certain: while we can't know what consciousness is, we > can know that it is. And though each of us has no proof of others' > consciousness, we each have proof of our own consciousness. We don't have proof, we have belief. The belief has biological origins. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
