[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Gordon <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Another problem with the computational model of mind, which I will add on
> top of my own post here, is that it seems to lead to the homunculus fallacy.
> Simply stated: if the brain is like a computer then who/where/what is the
> computer operator? Is that homunculus also a computer?

It's not that the brain is like a computer, it's that the brain could
be replaced by a computer performing the same functions and this
computer will also have the same consciousness. The homunculus
problem, such as it may be, is as much a problem for the brain as for
the computer.


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Stathis Papaioannou