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>From: mcdermot@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Timothy McDermott)
Subject: Re: We've Been Tricked- consciousness
Message-ID: <1992Oct12.134909.17993@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:49:09 GMT
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In <1992Oct9.223541.9538@wixer.cactus.org> 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.

>The feeling of having consciousness must arise from some informational
>process and therby arises from physical processes which as far as we know are
>the only things that can encode information.  Withuot that 1 nit of info that
>says you are conscious (of what we dont know) there is no such awareness.

>I'm sorry. Its just not that big a deal.
>but it is nicly complex. (^_^)

>Tim.

Could a computer be so tricked?



