[FRIAM] Eternal questions

[Frank Wimberly]

Consciousness is an illusion experienced by a conscious mind?

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 4:05 AM Pieter Steenekamp <pieters at randcontrols.co.za>
wrote:

> The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and
> instinct’. This is obviously not true, it's just an illusion.
>
> But then, according to Daniel Dennett, human consciousness is just an
> illusion.
> https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf
>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 09:18, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
>
>> "In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions (about intentionality,
>> consciousness, free will, mind-body problem...) have become engineering
>> problems", argues this Guardian article.
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence
>>
>> -J.
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