David_Allen comments on The conscious tape - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Allen 17 September 2010 07:31:13PM 1 point [-]

It seems that consciousness requires some type of thought, and that thought requires the system to self-modify. A static representation of the Turing machine then does not meet this requirement.

So a Turing machine that is not running is not conscious.

Is there another perspective to consider?