Re: Dualism

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From: Neil Rickert
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:42

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In article <BuG1nK.DGL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>                                               Even for cognitive
>concepts like learning, the main facts that need explaining are
>things like how behaviour improves over time in response to environmental
>stimulation, and such facts are obviously entailed by the right kind
>of physical/functional story.  Not so with consciousness: even when
>you've told the whole story about behaviour and its physical causation,
>there still seems to be a vast explanatory gap between that and
>the phenomenon of consciousness itself.

However it is quite possible that you have it backwards.  Experience
has shown true that the problem of  producing mechanized learning is
quite hard.  Once we have the right kind of learning, consciousness may
actually turn out to be much simpler than we think.

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