Re: Zombies?

  • From: "Jerold Hargis" <sigrah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: technocracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:16:16 +0800

If it exists, it is what separates conscious beings from Turing Machines. 

"The concept of a Turing machine has played an important role in the recent 
philosophy of mind. The suggestion has been made that mental states just are 
functional states of a probabilistic automaton, in which binary inputs and 
outputs have been replaced by sensory inputs and motor outputs. This idea 
underlies the theory of mind known as "machine functionalism". "
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/)


qualia = Conscious experience

http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/qualia.html

or

http://members.aol.com/lshauser/zomboid.html

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