<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp@gmail.com> wrote:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font face="Arial" size="2">> </font></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Consciousness does not necessarily follow from conscious-like behaviour, but it does necessarily follow from reproducing the functional behaviour of a system that we know to be conscious.</span><br></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">That looks like a contradiction to me. How is the reproduction of conscious-like behavior different from the reproduction of the functional behavior of a system that we know to be conscious? </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gordon</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>