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Ideas of Tom Clark, by Text

[British, fl. 2003, Student of philosophy at RGS, then at East Anglia.]

2003

talk

	p.	4741	A very powerful computer might have its operations restricted by the addition of consciousness
			Full Idea: It seems possible that if a powerful multi-tasking computer was then given consciousness, this might restrict its operations instead of enhancing them.
			From: Tom Clark (talk [2003]), quoted by PG - Db (ideas)
			A reaction: A nice thought, because it challenges the usual view - that consciousness brings huge intellectual liberty to a mind, and that a mind without it is necessarily restricted. Maybe consciousness is a bottleneck.