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Popular ideas about consciousness suggest the phenomenon describes a condition of being aware of one's awareness or, self-awareness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness#Self-awarenessQuote Popular ideas about consciousness suggest the phenomenon describes a condition of being aware of one's awareness or, self-awareness.computers know 'how' to do things but dont know 'what' they are doing.Being 'aware' is knowing 'what' you are doing.
Quote from: granpa on 30/09/2010 06:28:09http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness#Self-awarenessQuote Popular ideas about consciousness suggest the phenomenon describes a condition of being aware of one's awareness or, self-awareness.computers know 'how' to do things but dont know 'what' they are doing.Being 'aware' is knowing 'what' you are doing.I suspect that's an arbitrary distinction. Where do you draw the line between how and what?For example, our dogs clearly know how to do a lot of things, and I'm pretty sure they have a very good idea of what they are doing too.It's not too hard to give a machine an objective (a "what") and let it figure out the "how" for itself.
A program is a square. Inside that square you define the rules for what you expect to happen, or rather what you allow to happen. That's a linear process, life's not linear. But if we get to quantum computing I believe we also will get to non-linear computing. Not in our questions though, but the way the answers come to be will.
intelligence is not only to be good at physics, or math.