[ExI] Wernicke's aphasia and the CRA.

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Sat, 12/12/09, Alfio Puglisi <alfio.puglisi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then we roughly agree, except that I take the opposite
> default position: that non-organic AI will have
> consciousness unless proved otherwise, the same criterion we
> apply to biological intelligence.

That position will lead to panpsychism - the idea that all matter has consciousness -- unless you find some way to justify one thing as conscious and another as not without using biological consciousness as the measure!

Panpsychism is not an indefensible position, and it does refute Searle's. It's just not very popular.

-gts