On 01/06/07, Torgny Tholerus <torgny.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
I am unconscious.
>
> I have no mind. I have no feelings. I have no perceptions. I am not
> thinking. I am just a machine that claims that I am conscious. The only
> thing that happens is a lot of chemical reactions in my brain. (Or
> rather, there are a lot of mathematical relations...)
>
> I just behave AS IF I am conscious. If you interview me, I will answer
> that I am conscious. I will strongly claim that I am thinking, and that
> is the only thing I am really sure of.
>
> But that is a lie. The only thing that exists is a lot of protons,
> neutrons, and electrons reacting with each other inside my brain.
>
> I behave AS IF I am conscious because the natural selection has favored
> that type of behavior.
>
Which implies you really are conscious, because otherwise why would
evolution have gone to the trouble of making *me* conscious if it could have
got away without it?
--
Stathis Papaioannou
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Received on Fri Jun 01 2007 - 08:48:53 PDT