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>From: petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson)
Subject: Re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI
Message-ID: <1992Feb4.125018.25363@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
Keywords: consciousness,functionalism
Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
References: <kokp5aINNiuu@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Feb4.035646.11687@cs.yale.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 12:50:18 GMT


Drew McDermott asserts:
"...simple create are not conscious at all. ..."

How do you know?  Have they failed to pass your
Turing test?

What pain we continually reap on the simple creatures
and we say they are not conscious.  Does a pig
not fear the butchers knife.

Sincerely,
Wayne Peterson

"Row,row,row your boat gently down the stream
merrily,merrily, merrily, merrily
life is but a dream."


