[ExI] Quantum consciousness, quantum mysticism, and transhumanist engineering

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 19:43:07 UTC 2017


On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 at 11:44 pm, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Stathis wrote: The studies try to find a correlation between awareness or
> awareness and patterns in the brain. They do not demonstrate consciousness.
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> Is there a difference between awareness and consciousness?  I would equate
> them.  bill w
>

A robot may be aware of its surroundings, demonstrated by the fact that it
can walk around, look for objects, pick them up and so on. But is it
conscious? What experiment would you do to find out?

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Stathis Papaioannou
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