SilasBarta comments on Outline of a lower bound for consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 January 2010 09:51:49PM *  1 point [-]

I can understand your worries. It doesn't actually say that you can prove a lack of consciousness; but that you can prove that, under certain conditions, the meaning of the concepts in the mind would be underdetermined; and argues that you don't need to treat such an entity as conscious.

A fuller treatment would talk about what parts of the mind are conscious, or which concepts are accessible to consciousness. I don't think consciousness is a 0/1 binary distinction for an entire brain.

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 14 January 2010 12:51:36AM *  1 point [-]

Too conservative?

How about, "further study is probably needed"?

(deleting comment, hopefully before google spiders it up)

Comment author: SilasBarta 14 January 2010 04:39:59AM 0 points [-]

Want me to delete mine?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 14 January 2010 03:46:37PM 0 points [-]

Okay. It seems innocuous to me, but when I imagine what would happen if Richard Dawkins had made the same joke online somewhere, deleting it seems like a good idea.