Re: SV: computationalism and supervenience

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:07:53 +1000

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:43:48PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
> Lennart Nilsson wrote:
> ...
> > But my point is that this may come down to what we would mean by a computer
> > being
> > conscious. Bruno has an answer in terms of what the computer can prove.
> > Jaynes (and
> > probably John McCarthy) would say a computer is conscious if it creates a
> > narrative
> > of its experience which it can access as memory.
> >
> > Brent Meeker
> >
> > Humphrey says it has to have an evolutionary past.
> > LN
>
> I've read some of Humphrey's books, but I don't recall that. What's his argument?
> Whats the citation?
>
> Brent Meeker
>

Wasn't he the Machievellian Intelligence guy? If so, then MI is an
evolutionary explanation, but a different one to say what Dennet gives
in Consciousness Exaplined book.

Cheers

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