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Consciousness isn't really the output, it's the category of all possible not-too-pathological running states of the program. The output is whatever the organism
by epgui 4y ago
Consciousness isn't really the output, it's the category of all possible not-too-pathological running states of the program. The output is whatever the organism does to or in its environment (production of speech, movement, decisions, etc).
- zarmin 4y agoOkay, but how do we get to the subjective experience of the experiencer? I don't see how what you've said accounts for conscious inner life.
- russdill 4y agoNo one has a good answer to that. But it's not necessary to answer that to conclude that whatever task a human can perform can be replicated by a sufficiently complex algorithm.
- epgui 4y agoYou also haven't really made any good-faith effort to read the neuroanatomy textbook I tried to suggest to you in another thread.
- zarmin 4y agoI did look for it yesterday but wasn't able to find a free version. Neglected to mention it because I was unable to comment (that restriction seems to have been lifted). I am genuinely interested in reading it.