>In my own opinion the question is meaningless which is why I think consciousness is some kind of inevitable emergent property of intelligent systems; Uh-oh...

>In my own opinion the question is meaningless which is why I think consciousness is some kind of inevitable emergent property of intelligent systems; Uh-oh...I was mostly with you up until that sentence. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/ (or the underlying http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_...).