<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai@yahoo.com> wrote:</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><font face="Arial" size="2">> </font></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gordon, I have a question for you.</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman',
'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><br>> Do you agree or deny that a digital computer could, in principle, run a simulation that imitated, </div><div class="y_msg_container">> in every way, a human mind, including referring to itself, reporting that it has internal states </div><div class="y_msg_container">> like emotions, and displaying all the intelligence of a human mind?</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">I'm inclined to agree, Ben. Some clever programmer will one day write a program that passes the Turing test. I might be fooled into thinking it is actually conscious. </div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">Gordon </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>