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The deep mystery of consciousness : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 4/1/2017There is an infinite qualitative difference between physical processes that are subject to physical laws and hence cannot transcend those laws and a conscious being who can be self-aware and act with intention.
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Posted by Banjo Paterson, Thursday, 12 January 2017 7:32:24 AM
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Dear Yuyutsu,
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You wrote :
« Advanced computers, so I fear, will be able to do the same, thus behave as if they were alive, even order their fingers to type intelligent articles and responses in this forum, but that would never in fact bring them to life »
Who knows what the future will bring ? I, personally, am incapable of imagining it.
But, whatever it is, I am not afraid. Rightly or wrongly, I am confident that, in the long run, humanity will do whatever is in its best interests, despite all its defects and contradictions.
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