Posted: Sep 11, 2018 8:28 am
Macdoc wrote:I don't think anyone here is very interested in your metafairyland Jamest, so please refrain from imposing your long discredited nonsense on others.
....Graziano wrote:
The theory is truly explanatory in the sense that it explains the observables. It explains how an information-processing machine can scan its internal data and so find, discover, conclude, decide, assign certainty that it is aware of this or that, that awareness has all the properties that humans normally ascribe to it. The theory explains how a brain can decide with such confidence that it has an inner experience. It explains how a brain can attribute that particular, complex, rich, idiosyncratic combination of properties to itself, to others, to pets and even to ghosts and to gods.
nice ...spectrums human/animal and machine consciousness
Yes, but it doesn't fall into panpsychism as would notions that consciousness is "information processing" or "integrated information". Although it's not one of the observables there is the key point of attribution, of what the information means to the organism / system. That may be an imponderable, particularly with entities that have very limited communication, but it is a distinction. Basically, if you can think you are conscious then you are, but 'you' are not the 'conscious mind' that is constructing the thought. So it overturns the Cogito as it is typically understood.