Today's 10 Twitter Posts

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:38:52 : OK, thoroughly confused, 2 trains at Strawberry Hill station, both going in opposite directions, both going to Waterloo!
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:51:29 : Aleksander - consciousness is not something an entity HAS, it's something that's inferred from behaviour etc - Geoff appears to be agreeing
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:32:53 : Can consciousness be explained scientifically' is of the same form as 'are there objects in space' not as 'are there stars in the galaxy'
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:20:47 : Geoffrey Hunt talking about self-consciousness, & how we need consciousness in order to talk it - ie can we define it if inside the system?
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:14:16 : 'time to move away from a computational model of consciousness to perhaps an interaction based one' - from conversational model perhaps
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:06:22 : A Turing capable chatbot is not a sufficient condition for consciousness/intelligence - of course it isn't, prob not even a sufficient one
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:58:21 : Rollo's Cleverbot and Watson being name checked - followed by discussion of Chinese room
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:49:47 : Mark Bishop now talking about the Turing Test and the Chinese Room
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:48:12 : Less convinced by JohnJoe McFadden's Field Theory - at least an epiphenonema, at most necessary but not sufficient, but doubt even that
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:46:32 : At an event on Consciousness at St Mary's University College. Nice description by Igor Alexsander about Integrated Information Theory