<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Gordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<br></font></span><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"> <span>> I can make computers do interesting things that appear conscious, but I don't suppose I could ever write a program that would make a computer actually conscious.</span></font></span><br>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span></span></font></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span><br>How could you tell if you succeeded or failed? <br>
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<div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span>> How do I write a "become conscious" function?</span></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><br>That would be easy, just write a "become intelligent" function. <br><br></font></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"> > I think the brain itself is not intrinsically a calculator</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><br>
And a computer is not a calculator either unless it is running a calculator program. <br><br>  John K Clark<br></font></span></div><div><br></div></div>