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

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 15 January 2010 01:04:09AM 0 points [-]

I'm surprised no one has come up with the objection that we believe things that aren't true. That's a tough one to handle.

Comment author: Cyan 15 January 2010 02:11:26AM *  0 points [-]

When you wrote that a grounding maps atoms to " concepts in a world W", I assumed you were talking about an abstract world that was not necessarily the real world. If I had to pick one of the many ways that it falls short of describing humans* to criticize, I'd go with "fails to implement learning".

* which is just fine given that it seeks to define a necessary but not sufficient conditions for consciousness.