<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 at 11:44 pm, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Stathis wrote: <span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class="gmail_msg">The studies try to find a correlation between awareness or awareness and patterns in the brain. They do not demonstrate consciousness.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class="gmail_msg"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class="gmail_msg">-----</span></div><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class="gmail_msg">Is there a difference between awareness and consciousness?  I would equate them.  bill w</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)" class="gmail_msg"></span></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>