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Article 6241 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Transducers
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Date: 12 Jun 92 06:57:45 GMT
References: <BILL.92Jun8150837@cortex.nsma.arizona.edu> <1992Jun8.221324.535@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1992Jun9.051649.9894@cs.ucf.edu>
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In article <1992Jun9.051649.9894@cs.ucf.edu> gomez@barros.cs.ucf.edu (Fernando Gomez) writes:
> But, what if we replace in the question "jello" with "ice cream" would
>the disembodied robot know what to answer? The answer is "yes" only if the
>eating-robot has eaten ice cream and learned this knowledge.

Suppose the disembodied robot answers "I am unable to determine that". Would
that alone lead you to conclude that the robot is not intelligent or not
conscious?

For my part, it would only lead to the conclusion that the robot perhaps is
disembodied (or doesn't have ice cream at home, or something else)...

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