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Article 3853 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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Date: 18 Feb 92 23:11:42 GMT
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In article <1992Feb14.214304.21507@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
>In article <6184@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>>In article <1992Jan31.142711.17883@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
>>>
>>>Jeff, the discussion is always about the *sufficiency* of the Turing
>>>Test, not its necessity. 
>>
>>You seemed to be saying you relied entirely on behavior.  I don't
>>think that's so.  I think that you, like me, conclude people are
>>conscious before they pass any Turing Test.  What basis do you
>>use then?  It's certainly not the Turing Test.
>>
>What basis do you use? It seems to me that yourself, myself and everone else 
>concludes that other people are conscious on basis of their _behaviour_,

I have already discussed this at length.


