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You may perhaps be confusing "definition" with "understanding". My dictionary defines consciousness thus: consciousness |ˈkän ch əsnəs| noun the state of bein
by joubert 17y ago
You may perhaps be confusing "definition" with "understanding".
My dictionary defines consciousness thus:
consciousness |ˈkän ch əsnəs|
noun
the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings : she failed to regain consciousness and died two days later.
• the awareness or perception of something by a person : her acute consciousness of Mike's presence.
• the fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world : consciousness emerges from the operations of the brain.
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We may not know HOW consciousness comes about, but we do have a definition of what consciousness is.
- rabidsnail 17y agoawake(p): not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake" And now we're in an infinite loop.
- beza1e1 17y agorabidsnail was probably talking about a "formal definition" not a short description in a dictionary. The key to artificial intelligence is to develop a mathematical model of intelligence/consciousness. Something like "An intelligent being is a 5-tuple ..." With this model we can calculate intelligent responses/development and a Turing machine can calculate. Therefore one can implement an AI on a computer. If there is no such model or we can't find it for some reason we won't develop an AI.
- joubert 17y agoDoes one really need a mathematical model in order to claim one has a "definition". Isn't a mathematical model's role to "understand" something (and hence predict)?