On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 9:13:40 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> >> 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. >
You're saying that a robot behaving like a human may fool you, but how do you know that your apparently fellow humans are not robots? You're going by their behaviour. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
