Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel - Steve Paulson - The Atlantic

The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel - Steve Paulson - The Atlantic: "Koch: What I'm serious about is that the Internet, in principle, could have conscious states. Now, do these conscious states express happiness? Do they express pain? Pleasure? Anger? Red? Blue? That really depends on the exact kind of relationship between the transistors, the nodes, the computers. It's more difficult to ascertain what exactly it feels. But there's no question that in principle it could feel something.

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