[ExI] Searle and AI

[John Clark]

On Dec 27, 2009,  Gordon Swobe wrote:

> Even if Zeus handed us a concrete example of an artificially constructed machine with strong AI, we could not abstract from careful study of that machine a formal program to run on a software/hardware system that would enable that s/h system to also have strong AI. We would need instead to recreate that machine.

Well I agree that if you duplicated a conscious machine the copy would be conscious. Of course making a perfect copy of such a complex thing wouldn't be easy; to do so you would need a very long list of instructions specifying which of the 80 elements with a stable isotope you're dealing with, and information on where to obtain such such an atom, and the coordinates of where to move that atom to. There is a name for a list of instructions of that sort, it's called a, it's called a,..., oh damn, it's right on the tip of my tongue, give me a second, ... ah yes now I have it, it's called a PROGRAM.

  John K Clark

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