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>From: sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan)
Subject: Re: Brain and Mind (was: Logic and God)
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In article <tim.719123764@giaeb> tim@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts) write

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>This thread is getting rather repetitive.  Am I alone in thinking that most AI


>researchers would be more constructively occupied by getting on and producing
>intelligent machines, which can perceive, understand, reason, etc just
>like you and me, rather than engaging in this non-winnable debate ?
>
>And that when these machines also look just like you and me, and act just
>like you and me, the whole question as to whether they have consciousness
>will appear so ridiculous that it will not even be worth debating....since
>if I believe YOU have consciousness, which I do, there will be absolutely
>no justification whatsoever for denying consciousness to that nice Ms Robot
>over there....even if she does have green slime instead of blood.
>
>Tim
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I agree. When these things realy start kicking over and talking about their
feelings of angst and there enchantment and how strainge it is to be alive
Which will eventually happen in a general artificial NL/vision/motor system
it is'nt going to matter what this or that test was..we'll be holding our hats
and a little embarassed to explain our original ignorance in what life was.
Some other guy named Tim.



