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Article #617Re: Consciousness
From: r norman
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:27
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:27
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:14:13 GMT, "Dio" <dadaismo@tin.it> wrote: >Is consciousness produced only by brain or it could be produced by a machine >too? > An excellent question that has been around for a very long time. Given that we really don't know what consciousness is or what produces it, the question of whether a purely computational device could be conscious is an open question. I presume you do not mean simply a mechanical gadget -- computation and information processing does seem to be intimitately involved. One general philosophical argument is that all biological processes are simply the working out of the laws of physics and chemistry. That is, the brain IS a kind of machine already, so yes, consciousness can be produced by a machine. And that means that is could also be produced by a non-biological machine.
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