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Dear John, dear Edwina, dear all,
is there a widely accepted definition of consciousness? If you say like "Alex> My concept of consciousness would be an awareness
to be maintained and
> sustained. So I think, a computer cannot be conscious, what you need is a
> living thing, an organism. So I think, only organisms- with a highly
> developed brain- can be conscious or aware, but computers, even robots, not.
>
> Best,
> Helmut
>
&g
living thing, an organism. So I think, only organisms- with a highly developed brain- can be conscious or aware, but computers, even robots, not.
Best,
Helmut
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Von: "John F Sowa"
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I view the two terms of awareness and consciousness as aspects of Secondness
and Thirdness, where, as Peirce wrote, “two sets of objects, what we are
immediately conscious of and what we are mediately conscious of” [5.395]/.
Awareness would obviously function within a categorical
Dear All,
This thread has attracted too many responses for me to save all of them. But
Mihai Nadin cited intriguing experimental evidence that fruit flies "think"
before they act (copy below). I also found a web site that says more:about
the experimental methods:
Alex,
The answer to your question below is related to your previous note: "Just a
question: do flies or bees have mental models?"
Short answer: They behave as if they do, Bees definitely develop a model of
the environment, and they go back to their nest and communicate it to their
A recent discussion about consciousness in Ontolog Forum showed that Peirce's
writings are still important for understanding and directing research on the
latest issues in artificial intelligence. The note below is my response to a
discussion about AI research on artificial consciousness. The
