Re: Can Pure Lookup Tables Be Conscious?

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 01:27:06 MDT


At 5:20 PM 6/9/01 Mike Lorrey writes
>Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
>> onsdagen den 25 april 2001 05:46 Lee Corbin wrote:
>> Isn't this just the same thing as Hal's point that the address update in
the
>> table lookup would constitute the evolution of a conscious mind? In this
case
>> the automatic arm would have to be guided by something, and this something
>> needs to retain a representation of the complex state.

This is EXTREMELY annoying. I never saw Anders' post. I have
a record of all the emails I receive, and it's just not there.

What, do we have to go back to the old days when people routinely
cc'ed others that they thought might be interested in their posts?
I guess that I just cannot trust my machine, or the extropian server.

As I happens, I am in the process of developing a devastating
rejoinder to all you skeptics who think that lookup tables are
totally equivalent to "normal" computation :-)

Lee Corbin



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