From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 02:31:42 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> >
> > Emlyn wrote:
> > > The problem is that we are equating consciousness with
information.
> > > I don't think that it is information.
> >
>
> Is a computer program information? Yes, when looked at statically as
> bits, no when considered dynamically running in some system.
Exactly! And consciousness it the running program (process), or even an
emergent property of the process, and not in any way is it the program
itself. Techies metaphor: One program, run twice, yields two distinct
processes.
Emlyn
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