Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!gilbert From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Mind is What Brains Do? Message-ID: <2992@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 23 May 89 11:55:49 GMT References: <3244@tank.uchicago.edu> <408@tahoma.UUCP> <3052@cps3xx.UUCP> Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 19 In article <3052@cps3xx.UUCP> wallingf@cpsvax.UUCP (Eugene Wallingford) writes: >Nor do we have a scientific reason to say that you and I are >conscious (as I suspect you are saying). > >Adopting this view essentially requires us to drop the use of the >term "conscious" from our active (scientific) vocabulary So how do we distinguish between the mental states of "asleep" and "awake"? Mental states are an established part of psychological research, with hypnosis providing hours of fun for those who wish to draw sharp distinctions between them. Before we commit all the work here to the dustbin, can we please read (some of) it :-) -- Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science, The University, Glasgow gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs !ukc!glasgow!gilbert