[extropy-chat] Reductionism

Kevin Freels cmcmortgage at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 26 21:49:02 UTC 2004


I will go as far as to suggest sentience. I am aware of the Turing test and
many of the other debates that have been made here regarding that topic and
I don;t think thae it has been sufficiently demonstrated by anyone that it
can be tested for.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Reductionism


> At 04:10 PM 11/26/2004 -0500, Eliezer wrote:
>
> >Name me a single concept I must use, for which I cannot give an
> >experimentally testable consequence of its presence or absence.
>
> Friendliness.
>
> (And watch out for those Type I and Type II errors.)
>
> Damien Broderick
>
>
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