Re: Jeff Hawkins Q&A


makc.the.great@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> JGCASEY wrote:
> > Intelligence is a collection of useful behaviors. And
> > different people have different amounts of the various
> > useful (intelligent) behaviors. We have more useful
> > behaviors than other animals.
>
> so, adding that to your previous points, that
> - there could be no test for consciousness
> - people confuse intelligence and consciousness
>
> we may conclude your overall point is that being
> conscous does not affect our (intelligent or not)
> behavious in any way?
>
> you have to see, would there be any effect of
> consciousness on something, there also would be
> a test to tell if that thing is affected by
> consciousness or not.
>
> other way around, would there be no effect of
> consciousness on anything - and if you agree that
> something that does not affect anything at all,
> simply does not exist (because IMHO existance of
> something is always affecting some other thing)
> - we could conclude then, that consciousness does
> not exist.

I didn't say that it didn't effect our behaviors
only that we can be conscious without being
intelligent. I don't know if human intelligence
requires a conscious state. It might as we are
usually conscious of "directed" learning.

The fact that we talk about being conscious is
a physical effect.

.

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