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From: rolandi@gollum.UUCP (mail)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence / Consciousness Test for Machines (Neural-Nets)???
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Date: 7 Oct 88 20:09:54 GMT
Reply-To: rolandi@gollum.UUCP (Walter Rolandi)
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Adding to Barry Kort's......

>Consciousness is not a binary phenomenon.  There are degrees of
>consciousness.  So the transition from non-conscious to conscious
>is a fuzzy, gradual transition.

When a person is awake and responds in a predictable manner, he is said 
to be conscious.

>Awareness may then be defined as the ability of a
>sentient system to monitor an evolving state of affairs.

When a person is known to know some given thing, he is said to be aware.

>Self-awareness may, in turn, be defined as the capacity of a sentient
>system to monitor itself.

When a person can label his own behavior in ways that are consistent with
the labels of those who observe him, he is said to be self-aware.


Walter Rolandi
rolandi@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
NCR Advanced Systems Development, Columbia, SC