[ExI] hard science

[BillK]

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:37 PM, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
>> Just how would anyone know that a machine is self-aware?  We can't even
>> prove that another person is self-aware (and we can't prove that people in a
>> coma are not aware of something even if it's just their subjective
>> experience - unless there is no function above the hindbrain).  Psychology
>> (and philosophy) is full of this crap:  do others experience the same things
>> we do?  Unanswerable question ('probably not' is the best we can do).  We
>> might as well ask those women who have additional color vision what they see
>> that we can't.  bill w
>>
>>


Don't worry. Any women will soon tell a man that they are colour blind
as soon as they try to choose decorating colours.  :)

BillK