From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aisb!jeff Tue Jan 28 12:17:27 EST 1992
Article 3124 of comp.ai.philosophy:
Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aisb!jeff
>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism (was Re: Virtual Person?)
Message-ID: <1992Jan24.181432.8343@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Jan 92 18:14:32 GMT
References: <1992Jan22.213820.20784@cs.yale.edu> <1992Jan23.015152.510@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Jan23.214130.27931@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Lines: 15

In article <1992Jan23.214130.27931@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>
>This is far short of panpsychism, due to the rarity of systems that realize
>such complex organization.
>
>On the other hand, I don't think that panpsychism is so unreasonable.  I
>think it's quite likely that thermostats have conscious states, if only
>of a very limited kind.

I think the actual effect of such an approach is not to answer
the questions we've been posing about computers but rather to
force us to use a different way to express them.

-- jd


