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From: vlsi_lib@netcom.com (Gerard Malecki)
Subject: Re: Partial consciousness
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 01:44:10 GMT
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In article <3advml$g71@netaxs.com> sparky@netaxs.com (Tim Sheridan) writes:
>Ok I notice that posts that present things at the edge of knowledge seem 
>to have large responses..  Penrose's theories..Wisdom..Time..Randomness..
>
>But the edge of knowledge seems much like Semi-Consciousness..  What 
>accounts for the feelings of semiconsciousness?
>
>By this I do not mean "Oh drugs man.. heh heh"  I mean what is structural 
>difference between being conscious and sensing that we are only semi 
>conscious as in the early wakeing, dazed or drunken states..
>
>How is this perception encoded?  And How does it actually differ?

From the AI point of view, there is no such thing as semi-consciousness.
Either you are conscious or you aren't. If strong-AI could create a
computer that is even 0.001% conscious (as agreed upon unanimously by
both strong and weak AI researchers), it is in a sense equivalent to
having produced a fully conscious one.

Shankar Ramakrishnan
shankar@vlibs.com
