Probabilistic-Now

Is there a correlation between intelligent behavior and consciousness? A thermostat has intelligent behavior; when the temperature reaches some certain level it will start or stop. Does a PC has consciousness? It is clear that i.b. is a element but not everything. There must be intelligence in order to have consciousness but there may not be consciousness without intelligence. Sue Do you think you have free will? Dave I don't know, I really don't know. And the reason I don't know is that I don't know what it means to have free will. I know that most of the time when I want to do something I do it, and most of the time that seems good

This is testing of deviant journal Sue Explain about the China brain. Ned OK, the idea is that you could assemble a group of people and have them communicate by satellite or by cell phone, so that each of them simulated what was in effect a neuron. They would interact by electronic means in a way that was like the way that neurons in the brain interact by electronic means. I called it the China brain, because I said there are a billion people in China—not really as many neurons as there are in a brain, but something approaching that. They together would then control a body; all these people would be jointly the brain of that bo