[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet

[gts]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:53:40 -0500, Brent Allsop <allsop at extropy.org>  
wrote:

> A camera can be “self aware” by pointing it in a mirror.  The picture it  
> takes of itself is information that represents itself – hence it has  
> knowledge of itself or is “self-aware”.  But again this knowledge of  
> itself is not composed of phenomenal properties like our conscious  
> knowledge of ourselves is.

Perhaps it's more accurate to say a camera is aware, but not self-aware.  
As a primitive mechanical object it lacks the ability to ponder its  
awareness of the images imbedded in its film.

-gts