Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

PV <pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Gene Ward Smith <genewardsmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>Then it appears you are an epiphenomenalist, as there is no
>>possibility of a functional role fo consciousness in digital computers.
>
>Says who? *

Says Gene. Or else, if they are conscious, they can never communicate that
to us in any way because, you know, the instruction sets that are
generating
the consciousness at some higher level do not allow for the computer to
change
its low-level output in any way because they're, like, deterministic, man.

Dave "and a consciousness that was formed riding on top of swaths of
Usenet
 posts would necessarily be Quite Mad right from the start" DeLaney
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