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- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Path: sparky!uunet!secapl!Cookie!frank
- From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
- Subject: Re: Dualism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.205125.118902@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:51:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.000022.21195@oracorp.com>
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov12.000022.21195@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:
- >My original complaint was with the idea of distinguishing "programs
- >with consciousness" from "programs without consciousness" by their
- >functional organization---programs with certain functional
- >organizations are conscious, and programs with different functional
- >organizations are not. This idea doesn't get us anywhere unless we
- >know which abstraction function A to use.
-
- By the time you are talking about it as a "program", you have already
- abstracted to the functional organization. (You still have to look at the
- program to see what that functional organization is. And we don't yet know
- just what properties the functional organization needs to have in order to
- be conscious.)
-