Tiiba comments on The conscious tape - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tiiba 17 September 2010 02:57:14PM *  6 points [-]

Something is making us talk about consciousness. Until we come up with a definition, we really have no business saying that this very real something is a fake version of some undefined ball of vagueness. It's like saying that trees are just big wooden things pretending to be snumbas. It's a lot better to just find out what makes us talk about consciousness and say, "Let's call it consciousness!"

Comment author: MartinB 17 September 2010 03:42:09PM 1 point [-]

Well yes. A good definition matters.

Option 2 makes the least sense to me. It should be possible to have consciousness with any kind of computational device.