On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote:
>> Third party personal reports count just fine *PROVIDED* you assume as I >> do that the Turing Test is valid >> > > > The Turing test is meant to test human-level intelligence, not > consciousness. > True, and most people have never even heard of the Turing Test, but every human being who has ever lived has implicitly assumed that if something behaves intelligently then it is conscious, even philosophers had no trouble with that assumption and they have trouble with everything. But that all changed when computers came along, suddenly biology chauvinists want to change the rules of the game. > Darwin's Theory of Evolution is about the origin of biological species, > not consciousness. > Darwin's Theory of Evolution is about everything life can do, if you're alive and you're conscious then Evolution is responsible for both. And Evolution can see intelligence just as we can but Evolution can't see consciousness and neither can we except in ourselves, and yet Evolution produced consciousness. You can make the obvious conclusion from that as easily as I can. > > There are more hidden assumptions here that you are not addressing. > List them then. I'm all ears. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
