Re: UDA query

2010-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2010, at 03:52, Brent Meeker wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Le 14-janv.-10, à 09:01, Brent Meeker a écrit : I think there may be different kinds of consciousness, so a look- up-table (like Searle's Chinese Room) may be conscious but in a different way. In a way distinguishable by

Re: Everything List Survey

2010-01-15 Thread Torgny Tholerus
Stathis Papaioannou skrev: 2010/1/14 Stathis Papaioannou : Interesting so far: - people are about evenly divided on the question of whether computers can be conscious - no-one really knows what to make of OM's - more people believe cats are conscious than dogs Oh, and one person does

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-01-15 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2010/1/15 Brent Meeker : > I guess I should be more explicit.  I found your post bemusingly > inconsistent.  You theorized that the continuity of your experience was an > illusion produced by evolution and you "really" exist as a sequence of > discrete OMs.  But evolution is a process that acts on

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-01-15 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2010/1/15 Brent Meeker : Or why not suppose you are your body (including your genes). Then evolution would be able to have had the imputed effect on "you" that you suppose it does. The actual effect of any adaptive behaviour must be through the genes, but e