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Article 7341 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: iordonez@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Ivan Ordonez-Reinoso)
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Subject: Re: We've Been Tricked- consciousness
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Date: 20 Oct 92 21:40:53 GMT
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sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan) writes:

>Since we cant tell if our aparent and undefined CONSCIOUSNESS is just a
>confeused disunderstanding or ilusion, I propose that consciousness is mearly
>a trick of the senses that any inteligent system could be easily fooled by.

If consciousness is an illusion, who experiences the illusion? How can
we, or any 'intelligent' system be fooled, or tricked, or cheated into
believing something if we or the system are not conscious before? In
fact, what is the meaning of having a belief without consciousness?

--Ivan



