(September 12, 2021 at 10:47 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Information processers can consider all manner of things without possessing anything we'd call consciousness. A pzombie can be subbed for any machine that mimics aspects of human behavior.
You consciously experience making toast..or so we all say...but the toaster makes toast without that. The question immediately arises. If you can make toast without being conscious....why are you conscious?
I assume the answer is that we need to do more than make toast. It isn't the number of things we can do that makes us conscious. It is our consciousness that allows us to do many things.