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From: vicc@ucc.su.oz.au (Vic Cinc)
Subject: Re: Thinking about consciousness 2
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MOOSMAN_MICHAEL_T (moosmich@cwis.isu.edu) wrote:
: 	I posted a previous artical about this same 
: subject earlier.  This one might be easier to 
: understand if you have had problems comprehending 
: the last one.

: 	Definition of consciousness is being aware 
: of your own thoughts.  Ok now I'm going to expand 
: a bit on that.  It would be saying (in my opionion) 
: that if we made a machine think, and then make it 
: use it's conclutions as normal data to form more 
: conclustions, then you would have consciousness.  

how do you define aware??

: 	In other words, if you made a machine 
: collect data.  Then draw complecated conclutions 
: from that data.  Then store those conclustions as 
: data (to be used again in step 2).  You would 
: have a conscious machine.  This machine would be 
: able to know that it was thinking, because it's 
: thinking would be stored.

which part of the computer process would be aware?

Vic

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