Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> Brent meeker writes:
>
> > I don't recall anything about all computations implementing consciousness?
> >
> > Brent Meeker
>
> OK, this is the basis of our disagreement. I understood computationalism as the idea that it is the
> actual computation that gives rise to consciousness. For example, if you have a conscious robot
> shovelling coal, you could take the computations going on in the robot's processor and run it on
> another similar computer with sham inputs and the same conscious experience would result. And
> if the program runs on one computer, it can run on another computer with the appropriate emulation
> software (the most general case of which is the UTM), which should also result in the same conscious
> experience. I suppose it is possible that *actually shovelling the coal* is essential for the coal-shovelling
> experience, and an emulation of that activity just wouldn't do it. However, how can the robot tell the
> difference between the coal and the simulated coal, and how can it know if it is running on Windows XP
> or Mac OS emulating Windows XP?
That has nothing to do with all computations implementing consciousness
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Received on Thu Sep 14 2006 - 08:32:53 PDT