On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be natural to assume that with the level of technology at the
> moment, anything that you can converse with normally is probably
> conscious, but that doesn't mean anything as far as what we are
> talking about. Just because you might think something is probably
> conscious doesn't mean that it tells you about whether or not a given
> hypothetical technology can feel or understand anything.

So you agree you might think something is conscious because of the way
it behaves but it may not actually be conscious? I thought you said
before the whole question is meaningless.


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Stathis Papaioannou

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