On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:26 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> w > Suppose you substituted for Watson's database one learned entirely from > the Conservapedia. Then Watson would be quite incompetent, >
Yes, and it would behave quite stupidly too unless it recognized the self contradictions in it's database. > > but I see no reason to think Watson would be less conscious. > If its database had self contradictions then it could still think about the entries in that database, but if there were no logically coherent links between the entries there would be little depth to that thought. I believe there is a link between depth of thought (also called intelligence) and consciousness but as I've said I'll never be able to prove it. > Bruno identifies intelligence with learning. > And if Watson couldn't learn he would have never won on Jeopardy. John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
