On 10/15/2018 9:10 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:53 AM Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com <mailto:cloudver...@gmail.com>> wrote:>>I guess its *possible* the man applying for a Ph.D was a zombie, but you know you are not a zombie so if he is one then Charles Darwin was dead wrong because there is no way random mutation and natural selection could produce a zombie. And I don't think Charles Darwin was wrong. > He could have been, like @RealSophiaRobot <https://twitter.com/RealSophiaRobot>, manufactured.If evolution found it easier to make a conscious intelligent being than a non-conscious intelligent being why would human engineers find the exact opposite to be true?
Possibly because human engineers can start from scratch and don't have to evolve their solution from pre-conscious biology. Your point isn't wrong, but it's only weak evidence.
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