First example of a computer being conscious?

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Is the virtual brain conscious?
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21 Oct 2013, 3:13 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/scien ... .html?_r=0
http://www.canada.com/Canadian+scientis ... story.html
http://www.news-medical.net/news/201307 ... ns-do.aspx
The above sites describe an amazing development, a virtual brain!
If http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional ... hy_of_mind)* is correct ( and I do not believe it is) then the virtual brain is conscious!
Do you believe it is conscious?
* click on that site and then click on "philosophy of mind" at that site. For some reason the links at wiki can only appear here second hand.


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22 Oct 2013, 12:28 am

No.

This is my previous topic , which says something about the subject -

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt242457.html