[ExI] Trilemma of Consciousness

[John Clark]

I have a few comments:
​
1) Strictly speaking the Turing​ Test is a test for intelligence not
consciousness, although until AI started making big gains nearly everybody
made the unspoken assumption that the two were linked, but now many want to
believe that carbon atoms are conscious but silicon atoms are not.

2)  The Turing Test has nothing to do with Turing Machines, the test is
agnostic as to how the subject manages to produce the observed behavior,
it's irrelevant.

3) The Turing Test is not a mathematical theorem that can be proved or
disproved, it
​'s​
a rule of thumb, it's just an acknowledgment that behavior is the only way
to judge the intelligence of others
​.​

​A​nd
 we can make mistakes and judge a stupid being as smart as in the character
of Chauncey Gardner in the movie "Being There"; another example would be
the millions of voters who judged Donald Trump to be smart back in
November. And of course it would be easy for a smart being to pretend to be
stupid and fool us. The test isn't perfect but it's all we have.

​ John K Clark​
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