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A comment on Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?.

Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by eggnet on Friday December 19, 2008 @03:29AM (#403153)
If we mechanically understood how thinking or consciousness worked, we would have AI. We don't understand, and don't have AI. I hope I was helpful :)
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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by chris_l on Friday December 19, 2008 @03:30AM (#403156)
Intelligence != Consciousness
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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by randallsquared on Friday December 19, 2008 @08:18AM (#403306)
That's true, but most people really mean artificially generated consciousness when they say "AI". A few people, like Yudkowsky, really don't, but the original post here was about consciousness, not really powerful optimization processes.
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