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Consciousness is necessary to thought
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Consciousness and thought are necessarily linked. Without consciousness a system cannot think.
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Artificial Intelligence »
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial IntelligenceâA collaboratively editable version of Robert Horns brilliant and pioneering debate map Can Computers Think?âexploring 50 years of philosophical argument about the possibility of computer thought.âF1CEB7
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Can computers think? [1] »
Can computers think? [1]
Can computers think? [1]âCan a computational system possess all important elements of human thinking or understanding? âFFB597
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No: computers can't be conscious [6] »
No: computers can't be conscious [6]
No: computers can't be conscious [6]âMachines cant have subjective experiences. Machines cant consciously perceive, feel, or remember anything. And, because consciousness is necessary for thought, machines cant think either.â59C6EF
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Consciousness is necessary to thought
Consciousness is necessary to thoughtâConsciousness and thought are necessarily linked. Without consciousness a system cannot think.â98CE71
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Consciousness before concepts »
Consciousness before concepts
Consciousness before conceptsâThinking of an object conceptuallyâie as falling under some categoryâpresupposes consciousness of that object. Thus, attempts by logicians to account for the notion of conceptual thought with propositional functions presupposes consciousness.â98CE71
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Judgments are grounded in phenomenology »
Judgments are grounded in phenomenology
Judgments are grounded in phenomenologyâPredication and judgment characterise the activity of the natural and human sciences. But such theoretical thinking is grounded in a more basicâphenomenologicalâlife world of structures of bodily skill, tacit knowledge, and general understanding.â98CE71
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The Connection Principle »
The Connection Principle
The Connection PrincipleâTheres a necessary connection between consciousness and mentality. All thinkingâas a form of mentalityâis a least in principle accessible to consciousness. Even unconscious thoughts involve consciousness, as they can potentially become conscious.â98CE71
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Thinking is essentially conscious »
Thinking is essentially conscious
Thinking is essentially consciousâIts self-evident that any thought in a thinking beingâor soulâmust be conscious. Thinking can take many forms, including: sensory perception, imagination, understanding, desire, and doubt.â98CE71
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Conscious experiences not required »
Conscious experiences not required
Conscious experiences not requiredâThe truth of a statement about some person Xâeg, X thinks or X understandsâ doesnt depend on the existence of a correlated conscious thinking event or conscious understanding event in X.âEF597B
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Consciousness is epiphenomenal »
Consciousness is epiphenomenal
Consciousness is epiphenomenalâConscious experience is a mere collateral product of our nervous system, unable to exert any causal influence but caused by the activities therein.âEF597B
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Consciousness is irrelevant psychology »
Consciousness is irrelevant psychology
Consciousness is irrelevant psychologyâConsciousness is irrelevant to thought, to mentality, and in general to the study of mind. Thinking and consciousness are independent of each other, if consciousness even exist at all.âEF597B
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No mental activity is conscious »
No mental activity is conscious
No mental activity is consciousâNone of the processing that results in conscious experiences is itself consciousâeg when we consciously see an image of a chair and a table standing out against a background, we have no conscious experience of assembling them to make a chair.âEF597B
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Thinking doesn't entail consciousness »
Thinking doesn't entail consciousness
Thinking doesn't entail consciousnessâAÂ machine could think without being conscious, because thinking does not entail consciousness. Thinking is merely associated with consciousness in humans, but this association doesnt imply that machines must be conscious in order to think.âEF597B
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No mental activity is conscious »
No mental activity is conscious
No mental activity is consciousâNone of the processing that results in conscious experiences is itself consciousâeg when we consciously see an image of a chair and a table standing out against a background, we have no conscious experience of assembling them to make a chair.âFFFACD
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