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In principle? No question. In practice? No chance.

• pulisse 7y ago
  How would a clockwork model of the mind explain the phenomenon of consciousness (as opposed to computation)?
  • hackinthebochs 7y ago
    The idea is that consciousness is what a planning algorithm feels like from the inside. A planning algorithm requires representations of the entities relevant to planning, e.g. various objects in the world, relevant laws, internal states such as emotions, motivations, etc. It is these representations from an internal perspective that have something it is like to have them. But the fact that this planning algorithm is constructed out of mechanical components is irrelevant. Computation is just an abstract description of the behavior of some classes of systems. But it doesn't exhaust the set of possible descriptions for a system. Some subset of computational systems might also have a description in terms of consciousness.
    • mrmonkeyman 7y ago
      Feels like? On.. "the inside"? How's that going to work? Don't you guys see the inherent problem in this? There is no "feeling" and there is no "inside". How such an illusion can come to be is totally unaccounted for and an ignored problem. You write like some "awareness" is watching these machinations, but in your model there is no awareness, nothing is watching this. There are just a bunch of bouncing billiard balls. Where is the "feeling"? Where, exactly, is the "illusion"?
  • Zigurd 7y ago
    Your apparent consciousness is the illusion of control over your subconscious mind.