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From: srmaddox@eos.ncsu.edu (STEPHEN RAND MADDOX)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Consciousness
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Date: 9 Nov 90 18:04:04 GMT
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>Too simple.  My computer remembers, better than I do, and I'm 99.999%
sure it's
>not conscious.  

I dont mean to pick with points, I usually enjoy just reading this base
but it seems to me that your computer doesn't remember things any
different than a book does.  It just records the information and may
even have elaborate systems of retrieval that search for key words.  A
conscious entity, however, would seem to remember with a series of
associations produced through input from the physical world and not just
scan written material.  'Remembering' may well be part of that which
makes us conscious.