Consciousness

Full Title or Meme

A simple idea of "self aware" well-know by most people, yet raised to a religion by philosophers,

Context

• Descartes "I think therefore I am"
• John Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to Cartesian philosophy based on pre-existing concepts, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.[13] This is now known as empiricism.
• Alan Turning proved to have the best definition while claiming not to address the definition of it at all. In Knowledge#Context. He described an interrogator, who is given the task of trying to determine which of two players: A or B on the other end of teletypewriter links is a computer and which is a human. The interrogator is limited to using the responses to typed in questions to make the determination. Turing proposed his test in 1950 to help answer the question "can machines think?"