From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Feb 27 1999 - 19:03:31 MST
Dennett and co. have, IMHO, utterly failed to explain consciousness,
even those parts of consciousness I (as a noncomputationalist) think are
strictly part of our wholly Turing-computable *intelligence* and could
be programmed into an AI without special hardware.
Crocker is correct, however, in that Mr. Lanier's "That's not
sufficiently heartwarming... must be wrong!" does not constitute
sufficient disproof. I only wish to point out that it is a level of
flat assertion matched by Dennett, if not by more rigorous arguers such
as Hofstadter or for that matter Crocker.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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