Re: intellignece and conciousness, the one implies the other?

On 26 Jan 2006 02:52:33 GMT, curt@xxxxxxxx (Curt Welch) wrote:

>I believe that the problem of creating an intelligent machine and the
>problem of creating a conscious machine are one and the same problem. So I
>would argue that everyone working on AI is in fact working on the problem
>of consciousness whether they believe it or not. I suspect there a lot of
>people working on AI that would even agree with my position - but I have no
>data on how many people that might be.

I don't see why you think creating a conscious machine is a problem.
Since you equate intelligence with consciousness, by your definition,
a thermostat is already conscious because it has some intelligence,
however minute. Heck, every computer or mechanism (such as Babbage's
gear-driven analytical engine or even a mouse trap) is conscious,
according to your definition.

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
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