If by "conscious" you mean "having a humanlike subjective experience", I suppose that in future we will infer this about intelligent agents via a combination of observation of their behavior, and inspection of their internal construction and dynamics.
As right now the only intelligent agents that ACT like they have a humanlike subjective experience are humans, and all humans have roughly equivalent brain structure and dynamics, we don't need to deal with the second part ... But in future, there could be impostor agents that act like they have humanlike subjective experience but don't ... and we could uncover them by analyzing their internals... This is under the assumption that subjective experience of an agent is correlated with (though not identical with) the patterns in the physical system serving as the substrate of that agent ... and that external behaviors only constitute a subset of these patterns... -- Ben G On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Sat, 5/31/08, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If something is pretending, at first it may dupe others into thinking >> that it is conscious. But as time goes on and other conscious >> agents detect and suspect an imposter their behavior will change >> towards it and the resultant behavior of the imposter may further >> reinforce their beliefs. > > I don't believe you are conscious. I believe you are a zombie. Prove me > wrong. > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." -- Henry Miller ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
