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All I have to say is that this article was awesome!

You know it's not true because the computer follows a chain of switches without subjectivity and you know that computer experts don't understand consciousness and can't program it. Let's say that they are pretending to do what they can't, That's what we are too, a bunch of biological switches! Thin...

I'm as sure about kid's consciousness as you are. But at 5-years-old it's hard to believe the kid isn't conscious. That's en empirical inference. You say so because the kid behaves like a conscious being. I thought this would be a good point to quote Searle According to the argument from analogy, I...

I think the article does have a point with color, because it seems so simple in the surface but so complicated to understand once you look closer. By one hand it seems objects must have some physical properties that our eyes perceive and our mind experience as color. In a way, we might say that thos...

For the computer to choose correctly, you only need an optical device and an algorithm. Then, choosing correctly an image may not be part of consciousness. And how do we know we're not just a complex biological algorithm? For all we know, consciousness may just be a by-product of running such biolo...

The article says: IIT has radical implications. If IIT is true, we could in principle build a ‘consciousness-meter’ that tells us whether any system is conscious, and to what level: from comatose patients to infants; from simple animals and plants to robots and next generation AI. But I'm having a h...

Consciousness interprets a scene. The brain creates a scene. The scene is not data but a compilation of signals. If you don't see a scene and are not aware of the scene, you don't see. Alright, seeing implies experiencing it, and without consciousness there is no experiencing it and therefore it is...

Scientist may discover the circuits that surround consciousness and declare EUREKA! but until they can create artificial consciousness (not just a mimic) they won't understand consciousness. Consciousness is as issue without a likely solution. The problem with consciousness is that one cannot tell ...