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From: roland@cochise.pcs.com (Roland Rambau)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Simulating thinking is NOT like simulating flying
Keywords: mind thinking simulation
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Date: 19 Feb 90 17:14:45 GMT
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ray@bcsaic.UUCP (Ray Allis) writes:

->computer programs are simulations, not models or duplications.  A simulation
->cannot be or produce duplication (except, trivially, of another simulation). 
                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
->Therefore a computer program cannot be or produce a mind.  

But consciousness is essentially (self-)_simulation_, so a computer program
can _duplicate_ at least consciousness. And that's the most interesting part.

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