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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
Message-ID: <1992Jan23.214343.28367@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 92 21:43:43 GMT
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In article <1992Jan23.024133.18261@milton.u.washington.edu> forbis@milton.u.washington.edu (Gary Forbis) writes:

>Sometimes I think my consciousness arises from a flow past some portion of
>my verbal processing equipment.  I wonder at my ability to generate a mental
>voice which seems as if a sequential production.  Could there be some shift
>register which holds serially aquired signals for patern recognition?  Words
>do not reach my ears in such a way that some single state transition can
>account for the conversations I hold.  None the less I sense sounds and
>interpret them as words and sentences.  Are you saying you believe
>consciousness to be related to the efficiency of the algorithm which converts
>input to output and the width of the i/o channels?

Not necessarily the efficiency, but the complexity, yes.  And certainly
to the amount of information being processed.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


