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On 8 Feb, 03:23, Publius <m.publ...@nospam.comcast.net> wrote: "someone2" <glenn.spig...@btinternet.com> wrote innews:1170322209.634126.32880@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com: When you say reconciled, I presume you refer to the issue of humans claiming to be conscious beings, and that their being/consciousness influences their behaviour, when materialism clearly states that there...

"someone2" <glenn.spigel2@btinternet.com> wrote in news:1170322209.634126.32880@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com: When you say reconciled, I presume you refer to the issue of humans claiming to be conscious beings, and that their being/consciousness influences their behaviour, when materialism clearly states that there could be no being influencing behaviour, and that we experience ...

"someone2" <glenn.spigel2@btinternet.com> wrote in news:1170115832.325944.33970@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: Ok, so if you didn't know how the robot was built and how it functions it could be imbued with conscious, yet once you knew how it worked, it wouldn't be imbued with conscious. Knowing how it worked would not necessarily allow us to predict how it would behave, in some...