Consciousness is the central factor of our lives. The only way I know I exist is because I'm conscious. I might be mistaken about who exactly I am -- for example, how attractive I am to the opposite sex -- but there's no doubt I have feelings of pain, pleasure, anger, of being a man, of waking up. Until recently, science has neglected to incorporate the fact of consciousness into its theories. If science wants a complete understanding of everything in the universe, it has to include consciousness.
The Nature of Consciousness: How the Internet Could Learn to Feel - Steve Paulson - The Atlantic
Thursday, August 23, 2012
How the Internet Could Learn to Feel
An interview with Christof Koch.
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