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>From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
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Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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Daniel Dennett, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, and author
of _Consciousness Explained_, recently spoke on this topic at a guest
lecture series at The MITRE Corporation in Beford, MA.  I asked him
whether Consciousness, which we usually think of as an emergent property
of a living brain, could arise from a sufficiently sophisticated
information processing system constructed from something other than
living neurons.  His answer was an unqualified yes.  He saw no reason
why intelligence and consciousness could not reside in a sufficiently
powerful computer processor.

Barry Kort
Visiting Scientist
Educational Technology Research
BBN Labs
Cambridge, MA


