On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:42 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 January 2014 13:34, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I meant that if the physics of the brain is computable it follows as a >> straighforward deduction that it would *at least* be possible to make >> a philosophical zombie. It is then a further argument to show that it >> would not be a zombie but a conscious being. >> >> I don't see this. Why would it at least be possible to make a p-zombie? > (And if you can show by a further argument that it's a conscious being, > then clearly it *wasn't *a zombie...) > > I think he means that strong AI would be possible, and then strong AI + comp -> conscious programs.
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