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Article 7291 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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Subject: Re: Brain and Mind (was: Logic and God)
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Gary Forbis writes:
 
> I suspect that for consciousness to arise, there must be some synchronization
> between the entity being conscious and the thing about which the entity is
> conscious.  That is to say, it seems unlikely to me that an entity will be
> conscious of events which cannot be presented to it within the natural time
> scale of its recognition.  Events may be so short that the entity only
> perceives spurious events of no consequence.  Events may be so long that the
> entity only perceives stability.

This surely applies to animals with "processing" capabilities much
short of consciousness. An animal which doesn't quite make the grade
gets eaten :-).

Q. Would we recognise a conscious entity that was operating at a
different "processing" rate than ours as conscious?

Mike Sunners



