What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat?

An Excerpt From The Conscious Mind, By David Chalmers Let us consider an information-processing system that is almost maximally simple: a thermostat. Considered as an information-processing device, a thermostat has just three information states (one state leads to cooling, another to heating, and another to no action). So the claim is that to each of these … Continue reading What Is It Like To Be A Thermostat?