On 2/3/2014 3:19 PM, David Nyman wrote:
On 3 February 2014 23:08, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>>
wrote:
I think that when we can "build a general AI to specification" that will be
the end
of the "hard problem" of consciousness.
Do you mean FAPP, or do you personally take the view that there is no remainder problem
of consciousness (to coin an alternative moniker for the HP)?
That's hard to say. I think conscious thought will be found to a class of thoughts and
there will be degrees of consciousness and it will be complicated and the "Hard Problem"
will be seen to have been overly simplistic. It may have an answer, like "If it can do
induction or Cantor diagonalization it's conscious.", but that may be only one kind of
consciousness and probably not the most interesting.
Brent
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