On 22 December 2014 at 12:05, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 2:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yesterday you said you had to conclude if the test detected >> consciousness well it must also detect intelligence. > > > That's not what I said, you've got it backward. Something can be conscious > but not intelligent, but if it's intelligent then it's conscious. > Consciousness is easy but intelligence > > > The Turing Test does not detect either one > > The Turing test is a heurstic, one we apply all the time to other people (and animals, robots, characters in films, etc). It suggests whether some physical object might have something it is like to be that object. > > -- 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.
