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From: yanek@panix.uucp (Yanek Martinson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Conciousness
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.061532.10775@panix.uucp>
Date: 16 Apr 91 06:15:32 GMT
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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While it can be said that even a calculator that can take a square root has some intelligence, and there are even microwave ovens that have been called intelligent, the more interesting topic is not intelligence but conciousness or awareness. Has any research been done on programs that are concious, that is have awareness of the world and of themselves? Also there is the problem of infinite recursion because if something is aware of itself, it is also aware of itself being aware of itself etc..