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Toward a Science of Consciousness 1998

Jerry Hull ZZZghull at stny.lrun.com
Mon Apr 27 09:46:01 EST 1998


On 27 Apr 1998 13:40:35 GMT, patrick at gryphon.psych.ox.ac.uk (Patrick
Juola) wrote:

>Oh, I'm disagreeing, vehemently.  We *have* evolving computers, we
>*have* computers (or at least multi-cpu networks) with greater storage
>capacity and comparable complexity to the human brain, and that's
>not produced anything that appears in any way conscious.  The
>argument that "evolving systems," "tinker-able systems" or any
>such is just another attempt to insert a ghost-in-the-machine through
>a process that the writer doesn't understand, even though many other
>scientists may understand quite weill.

I think you mean "Kurt Weill" (my 3 cents).

--
Jer
"If you meet the buddha, kill the buddha."
Lin-chi (dead)



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