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Toward a Science of Consciousness 1998

Hermital hermital at livingston.net
Sun Apr 19 15:55:45 EST 1998


On Sun 4/19/98 15:23 -0400 Scot Mc Pherson wrote:
> 
> I think his question is relevant here too.

Wherever "here" is.  I admit that I did not see the comp.ai NGs listed
in the header when I wrote my response, but where are you reading this
and/or posting from?

> There is a theory that suggests
> that advanced computer systems could infact assume consciousness with the
> right programming. And programs that are allowed to improve upon and
> reprogram themselves could arguably become a sentient consciousness.
> Remember that ultimately everything comes from the same star stuff that we
> are made of. If you want more scientific terms, we constitute the same sub
> atomic particles that exist throughout all of creation.
> 
We disagree on this point, but if you want to see the work product of
someone deeply involved in the subject of quantum consciousness, go to
http://www.hia.com/pcr/qmotion.html.

> We are just a freak of nature that allowed the material that makes up our
> constituency become a pattern in the way it does to create US, but not
> impossible or WE wouldn't be here. This is paralleled by the fact that IA
> Consciousness would be a freak of computing, but not impossible.
> 
Bull tweedle, my good man.  Bull tweedle.  You are merely running off at
the mouth in the above paragraph.
-- 
Alan 
Spontaneous self-organization is to the life sciences 
as perpetual motion machines are to physics.
Consciousness, Physics and the Holographic Paradigm:
http://www.livingston.net/hermital/intro.htm



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