<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017  <span class="" id=":105.4" tabindex="-1">Stathis</span> <span class="" id=":105.5" tabindex="-1">Papaioannou</span> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span class="" id=":105.6" tabindex="-1">stathisp</span>@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>If some aspect of my consciousness, or another entity's consciousness if they have it, were due to an intrinsic quality of a brain component which could not be duplicated by duplicating the observable behaviour of that component, then it would imply a decoupling of mind from body.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></span></blockquote><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></span></div><font size="4">But if that<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>mysterious<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>aspect of consciousness is disconnected from observable behavior<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>then there would be no way for<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>anybody<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>to ever discover it, there would be no way Evolution could have produced it and<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>, being <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​unrelated to </div>observable<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ behavior​</div>,<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>from <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​my​</div> point of view it would be totally irreverent if a AI had <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​that mysterious aspect​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div> or not<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​. I</div>f<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>a<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>AI or my fellow humans don't have it that's<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>their<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>problem not mine.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">I think we should worry less about consciousness and more about <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​observable ​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">intelligent behavior.  </div>  </font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ John K Clark​</div><br></font> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>