(April 6, 2015 at 8:11 am)Rhythm Wrote: To tie it in with your response....not all data exchange is computation...so, to me, not all data exchange should be expected to yield a mind (and so I'm not surprised when things exchange vast amounts of data without presenting consciousness, or something we would recognize -as- consciousness.
Why isn't all data exchange computation? It all involves input, processing and output. What more is there to computation?