Re: Fwd: Implementation/Relativity

From: Hans Moravec <hpm.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:27:17 -0400

Russell Standish <R.Standish.domain.name.hidden>:
> We have discussed a number of scenarios whereby being too thorough in
> an investigation will reveal a concious object as nonconcious.

Every one a canard.

**** Consciousness is an attribution, not an objective fact ****

But any attributed consciousness is conscious in its own eyes. This
includes your consciousness, my consciousness and theconsciousnesses
of characters in a movie, or the character represented by a
Turing-test-passing HLUT.

Sherlock Holmes, as I read the books, is conscious in his own
eyes and has feelings and beliefs (I can tell you what some of
them are), and so was my teddy bear when I thought about it a
certain way.


Should this idea be hard to grasp by people who imagine that whole
universes exist simply by virtue of seeming to exist to the characters
implemented in them?


YOU exist simply by virtue of seeming to exist in your own self-model
(which exists only insofar as you exist).
Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 18:30:18 PDT