Jean Louis <b...@static.rcdrun.com> writes: > * Van Ly via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of > other Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents@gnu.org> [2025-03-31 14:55]: >> Is consciousness fundamental or inevitable? Where do you stand? > > Consciousness as alert cognitive state in which you are aware of > yourself and your situation is obviously neither fundamental nor > inevitable. Just turn around yourself, and you can see people walking > like zombies or making wars, thinking how to kill other people. > > Computer can't be never aware of itself, it can mimic the awareness > and mimic the survival urges for human to anthropomorphize it. > > Consciousness is quality only akin to the being, which is you. If you > think of yourself as only a body, so be it, and if you think of > yourself as spiritual being, so it is the same. You may be or not be > conscious. > > It is not inevitable. > > It is not necessarily fundamental. > > Though maybe you think of consciousness in some other definition.
Natural philosophy science of the mind in 8-bit atari graphic resolution simulcrom. So, the Starliner had 28 thrusters and 4 failed leaving no failover coverage remaining. Maybe, 8✕1 serial and 8✕4 parallel p‑nodes are needed for Starship ITS AI and the Tenstorrent RISC-V hardware will do for modernizing the Cray-1 general purpose open free architecture. Do Linuxheads make jokes at the expense of Plan 9? Why is that? > >> Suppose, a synthetic consciousness mind machine is instantiated and >> has done the thing and the switch is turned off. > > We never perish. > > (defun discuss-consciousness (standpoint) > "Simulate a discussion about consciousness with Van Ly. > STANDPOINT should be a string representing the position on whether > consciousness is fundamental or inevitable." > (interactive "sWhere do you stand on consciousness > (fundamental/inevitable/other)? ") > (let ((responses '(("fundamental" . "Consciousness is not necessarily > fundamental.") > ("inevitable" . "Consciousness is not inevitable.") > ("other" . "You may have a different definition of > consciousness.") > ))) > (let ((response (cdr (assoc standpoint responses)))) > (if response > (message "%s" response) > (message "Is consciousness fundamental or inevitable? Where do you > stand?"))) > (when (or (string-equal standpoint "fundamental") > (string-equal standpoint "inevitable") > (string-equal standpoint "other")) > (message "Consciousness as an alert cognitive state is neither > fundamental nor inevitable. " > "It is akin to the being, which is you. You may be or not be > conscious.") > (message "Computer can't be never aware of itself, it can mimic > awareness and survival urges.")) > (when (or (string-equal standpoint "fundamental") > (string-equal standpoint "other")) > (message "Suppose a synthetic consciousness mind machine is > instantiated and the switch is turned off. " > "We never perish. Though if you are conscious about that or > not, that is your decision.")))) > > (discuss-consciousness "other") Can your code snippet be represented in a 512-bit vectorframe? To what extent are the number of bits needed for context? You are trying to be funny or macabre, or both. But you are not. -- vl --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)