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From: sylvere@divsun.unige.ch (Silvere Martin-Michiellot)
Subject: Re: What makes up consciousness?
Message-ID: <1995Mar1.134830.29939@news.unige.ch>
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 13:48:30 GMT
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In article EI8@netcom.com, departed@netcom.com (just passing through) writes:

[deletia]

>Heh ... I DID ... Castaneda is evidently quite experienced at playing with
>his consciousness, although, like you, I'm rather doubtful of the reality of
>many of the events he describes.  Still, his writings can hook into you at
>some level -- you feel as if they _ought_ to be true -- I think this is an
>intuitive recognition of a description of mind states you don't usually
>enter when awake.
>
>>By the way, are your reflexions motivated by personal or professional concern ?
>
>I'm heading off to grad school pretty soon, so this is personal _and_
>professional, I suppose ... I wonder if anyone will accept a thesis titled
>'Machine Consciousness', or if I'll have to be sneaky;  seems as if most
>places are working on more practical AI and most researchers are very leery
>of 'thinking machines.'  Perhaps I should angle towards cognitive psychology
>instead.

>-- Richard Wesson (departed@netcom.com)
>
I think you'll have a lot of trouble if you want to do a thesis on
"machine Consciousness" because as you can see everyone seems to disagree
even on the funding of consciousness in this newsgroup. So, imagine when you'll
have to submit this thesis to respctable people of the field.

However, this is great and I would have chosen to do a thesis like yours if I dare.

Send me a copie of whatever you want. I'd be very interested to read your ideas
on the topic since what I read of you in the news seems (IMHO) very good.



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