On 3/12/2015 12:07 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:49 PM, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:>So nobody could correctly judge consciousness of other persons before 1859 because they couldn't assume Darwins' theory of evolutionBut in 1859 EVERYBODY could and DID assume that if something behaved intelligently then it was conscious, that's why they thought their fellow human beings were conscious when they were not sleeping or dead. And nobody had any problem with that idea until computers came along, but after that some were disturbed by what the confluence of that idea and computers produced, so despite the fact that it was contrary to all logic they decided that it just can't be true.
The probably saw some logic in a distinction between things made of silicon and copper and things made of flesh and blood. Logic is a very weak standard.
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