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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI
Message-ID: <1992Feb4.214433.9121@psych.toronto.edu>
Keywords: consciousness,functionalism
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <kokp5aINNiuu@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Feb4.035646.11687@cs.yale.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 21:44:33 GMT

In article <1992Feb4.035646.11687@cs.yale.edu> mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott) writes:

>To get back to the puzzle: Consciousness is not a mass phenomenon.  If
>the whole network maintains a model of itself as conscious, it is
>conscious.

Um...so what's lookin' at the model?

And how does it *know* it's got one?



Honestly, when I see explanations like the above, I want to jump up and
down and yell "The Emperor has no clothes!"  Recursion and self-reflection
are *not* explanations, Hofstadter to the contrary.  

- michael
 


