On 25 November 2014 at 16:24, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:36 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We've made intelligent machines, >> > > Yes. > > >> > but I don't know of any conscious ones >> > > If intelligent behavior is not a test for consciousness then how do you > know that such machines are not conscious? For that matter how do you know > that a rock is not conscious but your fellow human beings are conscious > when they're not sleeping or under anesthesia or dead? > > Well that's a bit of a non sequitur. You could equally well say if smelling of raspberries isn't a test for consciousness, how do we know that light bulbs aren't unicorns? As far as I'm aware none of us knows anything for sure. On the balance of probabilities, however, I would say that rocks most likely aren't conscious, and that people probably are (when not asleep etc). -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
