Matt Mahoney wrote:
--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The question of whether a test is possible at all depends
on the fact that there is a coherent theory behind the idea
of consciousness.
Would you agree that consciousness is determined by a large set of attributes
that are present in living human brains but absent in dead human brains?
Yes
Do you agree that there is no test to distinguish a conscious human from a
philosophical zombie, thus no way to establish whether zombies exist?
Disagree.
Would a program be conscious if it passes the Turing test? If not, what else is
required?
No.
An understanding of what consciousness actually is, for starters.
Richard Loosemore
-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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