From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 09:16:52 MDT
Hi,
I don't turn to the dictionary for my own understanding, only to provide
an anchor for discussions with people speaking from radically different
perspectives
Ben g
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> Subject: Re: Sentience
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> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 "Ben Goertzel" <ben@goertzel.org> said:
>
> >You say that you don't have any idea what I mean by
> "sentience." If you
> >check out dictionary.com or any other dictionary you will
> get the basic
> >idea. I'm not being flippant.
>
> No, not flippant, just wrong. If you expect to get
> philosophical enlightenment from a dictionary you are nearly
> certain to be disappointed. Example: If you look up
> "sentience" it will say something like a thing that
> possessing conscious awareness; and if you look up
> "consciousness or awareness it will say something that is sentient.
>
> Slightly more useful is "an intelligent system that contains
> components devoted to modeling and understanding itself and
> its relationship to its environment", but then it gets
> downright silly "and determining its own overall actions"; A
> cuckoo clock determines its own overall actions.
>
> John K Clark
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