[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Kelly Anderson]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:31:24PM -0700, Gordon wrote:
> > Eugen,
> >
> > > First question: what do you mean by consciousness?
> >
> > I mean, exactly, what philosophers mean by intentionality:
> >
> > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intentionality/
>
> Ok, how I measure intentionality? I need to make sure
> I succeeded, after all.
>
> Do animals have intentionality? Primates, rodents, fruit
> flies, nematodes, bacteria, viruses?
>

More to the point, how can you prove that human beings have intentionality?

-Kelly
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