On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 , LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
I have no doubt that you believe that your fellow human beings are conscious when they are not in certain states, such as the state of being asleep or the state of being under anesthesia, or the state of being dead. I also have no doubt you believe rocks are not conscious in every state they are capable of being in. My question to you is if intelligent behavior is not a test for consciousness then how did you make this determination? > 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). > I believe that too, but then I think that intelligent behavior is the test for consciousness, it's not a perfect test but it's the only test we have. But never mind me, I want to know why you believe it. John K Clark -- 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.
