Brent Meeker writes:
> Almost is not completely. In any case, I don't think consciousness is maintained
> indefinitely with no inputs. I think a "brain-in-a-vat" would go into an endless
> loop without external stimulus.
That's an assumption, but even if true it would only say something about the
nature of human brains. It is easy enough to imagine a brain with self-excitatory
neurons that provide the same kind of input as the environment does, modulating
their activity in response to feedback from other neurons. It would just be a
technical problem to ensure that it didn't go into an endless loop.
Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 06:53:03 PDT