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What is consciousness? I have the feeling of experiencing things. Is it not possible that such a phenomenon can be produced within a machine? When I try to an
by randomsearch 6y ago
What is consciousness?
I have the feeling of experiencing things. Is it not possible that such a phenomenon can be produced within a machine?
When I try to answer this question, after coding for decades I can’t tell you how this phenomenon can be possible within a Turing machine.
So it seems obvious to me that (a) brains must be machines and (b) a machine cannot be conscious and so I conclude that (c) I don’t know what I’m talking about.
- ohazi 6y agoWhat is a feeling?
- visarga 6y agoHave you ever had a moment when your program was more complex than you could grasp? Consciousness is just too complex to grasp, not transcendent. It's physical like everything else.
- proc0 6y agoLol, I was thinking along those lines... we are talking about consciousness with language... which was created by it long before we posed the question. I'm trapped trying to explain to myself how explaining to myself is even possible without language which was created by that which I'm trying to explain with language.