[ExI] Bringing new life to dead matter

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:34 PM, The Avantguardian
<avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One possible way to define a "unit" of consciousness is through an environmental sensory-behaviorial feedback loop. For example a simple thermostat might be considered conscious in a rudimentary way: It senses the temperature of it's environment and then turns on or off the HVAC system accordingly. Computers sense and respond to their users unless one gives them senses other than a keyboard, then they can be programmed to respond to other stimuli. So I guess what I am asking is that if consiousness is *not* information processing then what else might it be?

It's a wrinkle in the carpet that sometimes your toys get stuck and
other times they don't and you can't quite explain why it is.