atucker comments on For fiction: How could alien minds differ from human minds? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 23 August 2011 12:55:32AM -1 points [-]

Upon reading the papers, it seems like were talking about different things.

I was talking about what I thought consciousness was (like, what I would label as conscious and unconscious), and I think you were talking about what it does/is for.

Comment author: gwern 23 August 2011 01:11:19AM 1 point [-]

Is there a difference between what something is and what something does?