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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Conciousness
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Date: 19 Apr 91 14:06:35 GMT
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Morf: yanek@panix.uucp (Yanek Martinson)
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Subject: Conciousness
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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..

>> (I hate one liners:-)
>> In answer to the first question, no.

there is problem of infinite recursion

>> I agree, a "problem"; in fact, the crux of the biscuit. Consider the
>> sense in which a statement in Godel's proof is "aware" of itself.

>> Gordon Joly                                       +44 71 387 7050 ext 3716
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>> 
>>    "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything!"