Harvey Newstrom, <newstrom@newstaffinc.com>, writes:
OK, this is basically a statement that you believe in the causal model
but not the pattern model. I accept
> I submit that your pattern-model will not occur without a causal-model brain
> actually running the consciousness programming and creating the patterns for
> the pattern-model brain.
> Your so-called pattern-model for consciousness is merely a snapshot of a
> causal-model brain at a specific moment in time. Your series of programmed
> patterns is merely an animated picture of a brain working. It is not a
> functional brain by itself. It can never input data and react. It can
> never do anything other than replay the pattern that is being animated. It
> is a movie of a brain being conscious, so it looks very much like a brain
> being conscious, but it fails any Turing Test. Ask the film a question. It
> can't answer until the causal brain makes a new film of a brain giving the
> answer. Then, when that film is played back, it will appear that the
> pattern brain has answered. The pattern-brain cannot meet the definitions
> of life or consciousness without having a causal-model brain standing in for
> it.
Do you view this second run as conscious? If so, you need to read Emlyn's and Eliezer's messages which I referred to, which will challenge this view by showing that it is not so different from a situation which you have said is not conscious.
If you don't think this second run is conscious, although the first one was, I'd like to hear more about why you think that.
Hal