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Manfred comments on [LINK] Claustrum Stimulation Temporarily Turns Off Consciousness in an otherwise Awake Patient - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 06 July 2014 10:19:28PM 0 points [-]

Or if she was a robot, we might say that her memory-formation was impaired, and the chain that led from patterned stimuli to appropriate responses was broken, as well as the normal process of generating actions and carrying them out. However, she was able to carry out some actions that had been previously generated, making it likely that she was not generating new actions.

Comment author: shminux 06 July 2014 10:56:29PM 0 points [-]

Seeme like as good a definition of consciousness as any.