Re: consciousness

Dale Kelly <dale.kelly@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:19:31 -0700, Greg G. wrote:

A computer might if it was
programmed to be conscious.


please show me a computer program that will make my computer conscious

Consciousness is what suitably elaborated information processing systems
with sufficiently high bandwidth interfaces with the real world *do*.
It's not a program, and it's not a thing. It's a process of processing.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

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