How Can We Make A Computer Conscious?

[Philosophy Now]

Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/165/How_Can_We_Make_A_Computer_Conscious

[Gary Childress]

Should we want to make a computer conscious?

[wtf]

Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.

Since consciousness is not computable, it can't be done.

You don't need to send me a book. Thanks anyway.

... wait ... a RANDOM book? I'd like to see that. You can't prove that anything in the world is actually random. Can you prove your book selection method is random? You'd win a Nobel prize if you could do that. At best, you might have a method that's epistemologically random; that is, unknowable by us, but ultimately deterministic. Coin flips, dice rolls, and perhaps the low-order bit of the femtosecond timestamp of the next neutrino to hit your detector share that property.

Surprised such a high-toned philosophy mag would make such an elementary error.

The word you were looking for is arbitrary. You're going to send them an arbitrary book, not a random one.

[Impenitent]

does a book for cowards have a spine?

-Imp

[puto]

“Consciousness enables an organism to respond to circumstances grasped as wholes, not just to constituent features that can engage with laws or rules of computation.” Hodgson, David. “A Role For Consciousness,” “Global Warning? The green philosophy Issue,” Philosophy Now, Issue 65, January/February 2008, Digital.

Philosophy Now had the answers, do I still get a free book?