On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *elsewhere you have agreed that many data processing machines are not > conscious because they take no actions based on the data being true. * > I don't recall ever saying that! What I may have said is, something may be intelligent and thus conscious but I would have no way of knowing that unless it acted intelligently. Maybe a rock is processing data in some way that I don't understand and thus is conscious. But I doubt it. *> I think of the paramecium that swims to the left because the water is to > salty on the right as being conscious.* > Probably true. intelligence is not an all or nothing matter and I have fundamental evidence that the same is true for consciousness: I'm more conscious when I try to solve a calculus problem than I am when I'm about to fall asleep. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>c iccd -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv04NpaO1MO%3DP_CjsXBkJQ7uT3MbtUhP_%2BAprcmSK5XoSg%40mail.gmail.com.
