[alicebot-aiethics] Consciousness?

[Tim Barker]

It think to say "conciousness is only an anthropocentric illusion" requires 
a complex awareness of our selves including an implication of reality also 
being an illusion.

Tim

At 10:43 13/04/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Kristina = Christina ?
>
> > Do you think that artificial intelligence will lead to selfconsciousness
>of the program in the end?
>
>No.  I think we have discovered that we are not self-conscious.
>Consciousness is only an anthropocentric illusion, like Ptolemy's Solar
>System.  We are the robots.
>
> > An organic intelligence.
>If I were going to build a computer from scratch, the last material I would
>choose is meat.
>
>Dr. Rich
>
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Tim Barker Staffordshire U.K.
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