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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 Ā»
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial IntelligenceāA collaboratively editable version of Robert Horns brilliant and pioneering debate map Can Computers Think?āexploring 50 years of philosophical argument about the possibility of computer thought.āF1CEB7
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Can computers think? [1] Ā»
Can computers think? [1]
Can computers think? [1]āCan a computational system possess all important elements of human thinking or understanding? āFFB597
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No: computers can't be conscious [6] Ā»
No: computers can't be conscious [6]
No: computers can't be conscious [6]āMachines cant have subjective experiences. Machines cant consciously perceive, feel, or remember anything. And, because consciousness is necessary for thought, machines cant think either.ā59C6EF
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Consciousness is necessary to thought
Consciousness is necessary to thoughtāConsciousness and thought are necessarily linked. Without consciousness a system cannot think.ā98CE71
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Consciousness before concepts Ā»
Consciousness before concepts
Consciousness before conceptsāThinking of an object conceptuallyāie as falling under some categoryāpresupposes consciousness of that object. Thus, attempts by logicians to account for the notion of conceptual thought with propositional functions presupposes consciousness.ā98CE71
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Judgments are grounded in phenomenology Ā»
Judgments are grounded in phenomenology
Judgments are grounded in phenomenologyāPredication and judgment characterise the activity of the natural and human sciences. But such theoretical thinking is grounded in a more basicāphenomenologicalālife world of structures of bodily skill, tacit knowledge, and general understanding.ā98CE71
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The Connection Principle Ā»
The Connection Principle
The Connection PrincipleāTheres a necessary connection between consciousness and mentality. All thinkingāas a form of mentalityāis a least in principle accessible to consciousness. Even unconscious thoughts involve consciousness, as they can potentially become conscious.ā98CE71
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Thinking is essentially conscious Ā»
Thinking is essentially conscious
Thinking is essentially consciousāIts self-evident that any thought in a thinking beingāor soulāmust be conscious. Thinking can take many forms, including: sensory perception, imagination, understanding, desire, and doubt.ā98CE71
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Conscious experiences not required Ā»
Conscious experiences not required
Conscious experiences not requiredāThe truth of a statement about some person Xāeg, X thinks or X understandsā doesnt depend on the existence of a correlated conscious thinking event or conscious understanding event in X.āEF597B
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Consciousness is epiphenomenal Ā»
Consciousness is epiphenomenal
Consciousness is epiphenomenalāConscious experience is a mere collateral product of our nervous system, unable to exert any causal influence but caused by the activities therein.āEF597B
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Consciousness is irrelevant psychology Ā»
Consciousness is irrelevant psychology
Consciousness is irrelevant psychologyāConsciousness 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.āEF597B
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No mental activity is conscious Ā»
No mental activity is conscious
No mental activity is consciousāNone of theĀ processing that results in conscious experiences is itself consciousāeg when we consciously see anĀ image of a chair and a table standing out against a background, we haveĀ no conscious experience of assembling them to make a chair.āEF597B
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Thinking doesn't entail consciousness Ā»
Thinking doesn't entail consciousness
Thinking doesn't entail consciousnessāAĀ 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.āEF597B
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No mental activity is conscious Ā»
No mental activity is conscious
No mental activity is consciousāNone of theĀ processing that results in conscious experiences is itself consciousāeg when we consciously see anĀ image of a chair and a table standing out against a background, we haveĀ no conscious experience of assembling them to make a chair.āFFFACD
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