[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Apr 24 08:47:35 UTC 2013


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:41:00PM -0700, Gordon wrote:

> To John Clark's point: yes it is true that nature has built these machines
> that have consciousness, you and I being among them, but I think these
> machines that we call humans are not akin to digital computers. 

Once again: this statement implies that you know what the critical
differences are. It seems to be not about quantized or discrete,
since biology is both. Is it about being noisy? Quantum entanglement?
Something else?

Inquiring minds.



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