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I would like to know who thinks computation can cause consciousness. Is that a pan-psych argument? That a thermometer has a small level of consciousness. That’s definitely not my argument. — GLEN willows
Can you answer my questions?
Oh....and are you folks familiar with The Churchands, Paul and Patricia? — GLEN willows
We know enough about consciousness to know what can't cause it, and the observer-dependent nature of computation means that computation can't be the cause. — Daemon
Suppose that in my office of Minister of Scientific Language I want the new man to stop using words that refer, say, to emotions, feelings, thoughts and intentions, and to talk instead of the physiological states and happenings that are assumed to be more or less identical with the mental riff and raff. How do I tell whether my advice has been heeded if the new man speaks a new language? For all I know, the shiny new phrases, though stolen from the old language in which they refer to physiological stirrings, may in his mouth play the role of the messy old mental concepts. — Davidson, On the very idea of a conceptual scheme
↪Daemon I would like to know who thinks computation can cause consciousness. Is that a pan-psych argument? That a thermometer has a small level of consciousness. That’s definitely not my argument. — GLEN willows
the Mysterians is a terrible name, and I think a Psychedelic rock band in the 60's already took it. — GLEN willows
As for AI most of the arguments are based on what computers can do now, not what they can do in the future, ex. quantum computers. — GLEN willows
the simplest explanation for consciousness is that it's in the brain — GLEN willows
When you chop out a piece of the brain, or damage the brain, it affects consciousness. When you chop out any other part of the body, it does not. — GLEN willows
As for AI most of the arguments are based on what computers can do now, not what they can do in the future, ex. quantum computers. — GLEN willows
but how does the process come into existence? This is what has yet to be explained. — GLEN willows
To me this is the best and most logical response. — GLEN willows
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