Re: What IS Intelligence

From: Roedy Green (look-at-the-website-for-actual-Roedy_at_mindprod.com)
Date: 01/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:18:17 GMT

On 10 Jan 2004 09:47:10 -0800, dan@oricomtech.com (dan michaels) wrote
or quoted :

>I think the way it's stated, this would allow in almost any complex
>inanimate system, such as a gas in a bottle, atomic particles, etc, as
>being conscious. no?

Potentially, but they don't undergo state changes similar to what
happens in brains.

Brains are made of atomic particles. What's so magic about them?

Gas molecules in bottle don't change state. They just move around. 

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