Originally sent several days back... Why do I believe anyone besides me is conscious? Because they are made of meat? No, it's because they claim to be conscious, and answer questions about their consciousness the same way I would, given my own conscious experience -- and they have the same capabilities, e.g. of introspection, 1-shot learning, synthesis of novel ideas, and access to episodic memory in narrative form (etc.) that I associate with being conscious myself.
Build a machine that does *all* of these things and you have no better reason to claim it isn't conscious than you have to claim a person isn't. Josh ------------------------------------------- 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
