Yeah, before they know if they can have the problems solved by that time.

Red and Blue

I thought they were going to say Minecraft can teach you about digital electronics/logic

Shouldn't we be demanding R & B then?

In SRAM? Are you sure?

Thank you. But I'm too drunk to think.

Why not another?

Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity

Ok bad wording, I meant that I can see it being impossible to create consciousness itself. It's possible that it's impossible. :P

I agree with this, it's another reason why I'm not convinced we can create consciousness itself. How can we even verify the "consciousness code" for our attempt at building a consciousness has worked, if we can't even verify the consciousnesses which are already meant to exist?

"But you do agree that the brain is a machine even if it may not be a computer, right? If we built devices that duplicated that nondeterministic process and installed them in a larger machine that mimicked the brain in all the essential ways, and hooked this machine up to a body with senses to explore the world with,…

"Bottom line, if you reject the idea that consciousness can be explained, claim that there is some impenetrable, non-deterministic mystery behind it, then you implicitly endorse the fact that the universe is, on a macro level, non-deterministic and supernatural. Even if the alternative doesn't feel right to you, I'm…

The reluctant absurdist, I like that.

Yeah I do like that article. I skimmed the top line of it when I was googling for all the other crap I wrote, but I'm reading it properly now - thanks.

Thanks, I'm glad my ramblings aren't that insane after all. :P

I just want to be clear that minds are not physical. They are processes that take place in physical systems called brains. I'm saying brains are machines, not necessarily computers, but they are machines. The mind is what the brain does. The mind is better thought of as a verb, not a noun.

Wait, let me say one more summarising thing to try and make what I'm saying more succinct:

What necessary has to do with it, is that if it's not necessary, then it means that there is something inherent in the universe that allows consciousness to exist.

I have thought about your first paragraph a lot before, and I agree that there is nothing we do that can't be broken down to either: