[ExI] Trilemma of Consciousness

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Mon May 29 15:44:02 UTC 2017


On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 7:49 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

​> ​
> Tell me we are not going to have an infinite regress here.  Now we have to
> define intelligent behavior.
>

​You're *ALWAYS* going to have ​
infinite regress
​ if you insist on sticking with definitions. Definitions are made of
words, and all those words have their own definitions also made of words,
and on and on we go for infinity. That's why I say examples are far FAR
more important than definitions;
 intelligent behavior
​is what Einstein did and rocks didn't.​

 John K Clark
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