On 3/11/2015 9:25 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:> Are you claiming that your anesthesiolgist only gives you drugs until you appear unintelligent?I am claiming that when I receive anesthesia I become both unintelligent and non-conscious. I am also claiming that when any of my fellow human beings receive a anesthesia they behave unintelligently, but I can make no conclusion of any sort regarding the effect the drug has on their consciousness UNLESS I assume that the Turing Test is valid and Darwin's Theory of Evolution is true.
So you agree that we do judge whether or not beings are conscious more or less accurately; and so a theory about consciousness that predicts consciousness in some situation might be empirically invalidated.
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