[extropy-chat] cryonicist living life in reverse

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 3/15/07, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:

On 3/14/07, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thus, either every physical system implements multiple conscious
> > computations, OR some implementations are specially blessed by God to be
> > conscious, OR computationalism is wrong.
>
> Or more simply, consciousness is not what you think it is.  Rather
> than the privileged internal point of view that you imagine of
> yourself and by extension all conscious entities, a more coherent and
> parsimonious understanding of  "consciousness" is as describing a
> feature of any system able to introspect.


Sure, and you can revise everything I've said using that definition.

Stathis Papaioannou
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