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In article <1992Nov12.000022.21195@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:
>My original complaint was with the idea of distinguishing "programs
>with consciousness" from "programs without consciousness" by their
>functional organization---programs with certain functional
>organizations are conscious, and programs with different functional
>organizations are not. This idea doesn't get us anywhere unless we
>know which abstraction function A to use.

By the time you are talking about it as a "program", you have already
abstracted to the functional organization.  (You still have to look at the
program to see what that functional organization is.  And we don't yet know
just what properties the functional organization needs to have in order to
be conscious.)