(January 22, 2023 at 10:51 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(January 22, 2023 at 7:22 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Well...not yet anyway, and it's strange that you would claim as much even in error as you explain that no computer has this ability we ostensibly do. I take it, though, that when there are computers as powerful as the human brain, you wouldn't expect them to be conscious? Why not?
Because computer scientists have no idea how to create artificial qualia. It seems like it has nothing to do with computation.
I get the impression that you think consciousness seems like it doesn't have anything to do with any physical mechanism whatsoever. In which case it wouldn't be relevant to evolutionary theory.
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