eli_sennesh comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong

35 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 13 July 2014 11:01AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (229)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 July 2014 04:02:13PM 1 point [-]

At least personally, I expect the conscious system A to be "self-maintaining" in some sense, to defend its own cognition in a way that an intelligent-but-unconscious system wouldn't.