No, machines will never be conscious!
Are we closer to understanding the nature of consciousness than we were twenty years ago? Ever since Chalmers posed ‘the hard problem’ of consciousness, of…
Tag: self awareness
How old is self-awareness?
We take it for granted that we are self-aware. That we are conscious of ourselves. But how far back in human evolution can this self-awareness…
What happens if we admit that we are thinking about thinking?
(The points are numbered to aid quick reference and refutation.) 1. The argument of this paper is that if we actually admit that…
Spirit and Brain in the Emergence of the Complete Human Being on Earth
It remains controversial to this day the precise point in the evolutionary chain leading from apes to modern man at which the first men, the…
Who Am I?
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle! Alice, in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Human beings can speak, and when…