RE: Free will/consciousness/ineffability

From: Charles Goodwin <cgoodwin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:29:38 +1300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hal.domain.name.hidden [mailto:hal.domain.name.hidden.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2001 7:19 a.m.
>
> I would say to this that consciousness is a property of a program, not
> of a computer. When a computer runs a program, the computer does not
> thereby become conscious.

So a person isn't conscious either, presumably, since a person is not a program (at least, not unless everything is).

Charles
Received on Mon Oct 08 2001 - 13:27:03 PDT