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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI
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Date: 10 Feb 92 19:31:38 GMT
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In article <1992Feb7.224324.7502@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:

>I don't think it's an explanation.  And I think most animals have
>experiences/qualia, which is all I mean by consciousness.

Why do you think they do?  Maybe they just react in various ways
w/o any awareness of anything.

OF course, in the Chalmers view, they would have qualia.  But then
in his view thermostats have qualia, and so animals aren't a
particularly interesting case.


