Colin Hales wrote:
...
>> As far as the internal life of the CPU is
>>
>>concerned...
>>
>>>whatever it is like to be an electrically noisy hot rock, regardless of
>>
>>the
>>
>>>program....although the character of the noise may alter with different
>>>programs!
>>
>
>>That's like say whatever it is like to be you, it is at best some waves of
>>chemical
>>potential. You don't *know* that the control system is not conscious -
>>unless you
>>know what structure or function makes a system conscious.
>>
>
>
> There is nothing there except wires and electrically noisy hot rocks,
> plastic and other materials = <stuff>.
Just like me. Nothing but proteins and osmotic potentials and ACT and ADP = <stuff>.
>Whatever its consciousness is... it
> is the consciousness of the <stuff>. The function
Which function?
> is an epiphenomenon at the
> scale of a human user
Who's the user of my brain?
Brent Meeker
>that has nothing to do with the experiential qualities
> of being the computer.
What are the experiential qualities of being a computer? and how can we know them?
Brent Meeker
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Received on Tue Sep 12 2006 - 23:43:06 PDT