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It is not worth asking how to define consciousness, how to explain it, how it evolved, what its function is, etc., because there's no one thing for which all the answers would be the same. Instead, we have many sub-capabilities, for which the answers are different: e.g., different kinds of perception, learning, knowledge, attention control, self-monitoring, self-control, etc.
Aaron Sloman, comp.ai.philosophy (14 Dec. 1994) as quoted in Marvin Minsky, The Emotion Machine (2006) | ||
