From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 12:42:55 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
I have no trouble identifying with an Eliezer that noticed its own lack
of
consciousness. It'd be a shock, of course, but not so large a shock as
to
be insurmountable.
### There seems to be a contradictio in adiectio here; "to notice" is to
bring to (conscious) attention. A wallpaper Rafal, upon usuccessully
searching for qualia accompanying its cognition would admit to being a
non-Rafal, as currently defined.
This discussion brings to mind Philip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld" series,
where consciousness exists but not as a natural element of high-level
cognition - instead it appeared as a result of scientific experiments
performed by naturally not conscious yet intelligent beings. I liked the
series but I thought the basic premise was inherently lacking in
self-consistence.
Rafal
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