Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!bbn.com!BKort From: BKort@bbn.com (Barry Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Testing for machine consciousness Message-ID: <60436@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 30 Oct 90 16:48:36 GMT Sender: news@bbn.com Organization: BBN Labs Lines: 20 References:<3499@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1990Oct4.154655.23004@canon.co.uk> <7@tdatirv.UUCP> <1990Oct8.120927.8648@canon.co.uk> <21@tdatirv.UUCP> <1990Oct12.074325.688@canon.co.uk> <31@tdatirv.UUCP> <1990Oct16.084022.7279@canon.co.uk> In article oliphant@telepro.UUCP (Mike Oliphant) writes: > I would argue that the key issue is not to classify things as being > or objective, but rather to try to understand why the subjective exists > at all and to try to figure out just what the heck it is. Think of your brain and mind carrying out a mapping between external (objective) reality and internal (subjective) mental models or images. The map and the territory bear a strong resemblance to each other, but the map is not the territory. We measure the objective through our senses and construct the subjective as our internal representation of the world in which we find ourselves embedded. Barry Kort Visiting Scientist BBN Labs Cambridge, MA