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From: Chen Ofek <cheno@opal.co.il>
Subject: Re: ---<Definitions of consiousness>---
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Stephan Verbeeck wrote:
> 
> consciousness:
> ===========
> 
> An AI system becomes conscious at the moment that it learns, from
> observing events, to make the determination between events that are
> caused by its own actions and similar events that are not caused by
> its own actions.
> 

I really liked this definition!
There might be a problem with definning self.
I think self whould be defined as the brain (or maybe the mind).

> Life:
> ====
> 
> A conscious AI system becomes alive from the moment that it learns to
> take the actions that will cause the events which are its goal.  This
> goal being either fixed-wired or "generated".  Non conscious systems
> can accomplish this too (plants) but are not alive because it is an
> accomplishment of the rules of genetic programming and not of the
> individual instance of the species.
> 

I really didn't liked this definition!
Do you want to define an unconscious man as a dead man????!!

bye
 chen
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