Posted by alexandra_k on August 14, 2005, at 22:44:55
That I didn't have a body
Didn't have to eat
Sleep
Move
Do things...
The rat race of life
The duty
The obligations
The horrible people in the world
The horrible things they say and do
The suffering
I don't care
I wish I could live on the internet
If turing machine functionalism is correct
One could write a program
To simulate ones mind
And it would have mental states
Be conscious
Be you
Forever captured in a computer simulation
:-)Shame is...
Consensus is...
That turing machine functionalism is probably wrong...
A bucket of river water warming in the sun could have the same internal causal relations as mind
(Kim Sterelney)
Yet we would not want to say it is conscious
Or maybe...
For consistency...
It bloody well is.Heh heh
poster:alexandra_k
thread:541758
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