I found one, JOSEPH LEDOUX, a neurologist who observed we not only
can't determine whether animals are conscious, we can't demonstrate
whether humans are either. The point is more that the quality of our
tests is way off the mark for many of our questions. In the dozen or
so others it seemed like off hand opinions, like what we all were
thrashing over in the dorm in college or after dinner for so many
years.
Of course, you might even get that from me in a one-off opinion
statement like they all were. I think the advantage of discussing
deep threads of patterns with others who follow them is that you can
get somewhere. I thought determining in the chat here that there
seemed to be different kinds of homing devices what could be arranged
to make a rough taxonomic scale of consciousness was an interesting
result.
> you know, I missed this when you first posted it, but this is pretty
> interesting.
>
> On 7/19/06, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
> > Many of the current discussions on neurons, conscienceless, the
> > brain, computers etc are nicely addressed by the Edge's last
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