On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 9:13:40 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Craig Weinberg > <whats...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Maybe if there was a computer which was not specifically designed to > deceive > > our senses... which would mean that it was one which occurred naturally > and > > did not include anything which was ever designed or programmed by a > human > > being. > > Which contradicts your original claim that we can just "sense" that > other people are conscious without any logical analysis. >
No because we also realize intuitively that computers are unconscious without any logical analysis. That's why behaving 'like a robot' or a machine is synonymous with mindless repetitive action. Just because we can make an optical illusion which fools our eye into seeing three dimensional perspective in a 2D painting doesn't mean that we can't authentically tell when something natural is 3D. Craig > > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
