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>From: sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan)
Subject: Re: Nobody Home (Was: Human Intelligence vs Machine Intelligence)
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In article <eVoLsB6w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz
(Wayne McDougall) writes:
>  It's not that Searle doesn't understand the systems reply - he just
>doesn't
>buy it.  I'd guess that he just doesn't accept the behaviorist
>assumption
>at the basis of the Turing test.  The whole point of the Chinese Room
>is
>that you can pass all the behavioral tests you want but if there ain't
>nobody home, there ain't nobody home.
>
>bv
>
>But isn't part of the point that we can't prove that I'm "home" or
>you're "home" or the dolphins are "home". Perhaps "consciousness"
>equals "a very complicated behaviour pattern is home" or even "a
>humungous lookup table is home".
>
>Which I suppose leaves you with either
>a) by their fruits you shall know them; OR
>b) looking for a theory of consciousness.
>
>--
>  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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Has any Searlian (sounds like a star trek term) proposed how the
informational processes of the brains different material systems eventually
link up with the ethirial non-material non-informational super-substance
of deep isness we call consciousness?

If we remove eyes there is still consciousness.
if we remove the visual cortex- the same.
etc.. at some point the info-process must meet the Mugwamp jizzum of our
selves..

So I ask Mr. Searl and Co. -- Could consciousness be made of Information?

Tim.

We are the stuf that dreams are made of. --Some one claiming to be Shakespere.



