On 9/17/2014 6:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
That does not follow, as thermostat are not universal, and in particular have no universal goal, like do anything to surivive, like amoeba and most animals and plants, which are Turing universal, and have that universal goal.
If you refer consciousness to a universal goal, the goal of the genome is to reproduce. In fact you could even say that individual genes have a goal of reproducing, increasing in number, even at the expense of other genes on the same genome.
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