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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/05/2013 11:55, Gordon wrote:<br>
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is good enough to fool other people into thinking that it's
a conscious mind, then it can probably fool itself too.
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;">That is an interesting idea!</div>
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It would be interesting to investigate under what conditions a part
of the brain can convince the rest that you are conscious about
something. <br>
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You can be deluded about lack of consciousness, like the
Anton-Babinski syndrome where people confabulate their way about
their cortical blindness. You can also be deluded about your own
existence; I can imagine somebody with Cotard delusions claiming to
be a philosophical zombie, but what that proves is anybody's guess.
In fact, brains with totally inconsistent states seems entirely
plausible. I guess the challenge is to figure out how they get into
*consistent* states. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University </pre>
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