[extropy-chat] Sterling, Wired, and the Singularity

[Mike Lorrey]

--- John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:

> >Sure, computers might someday awaken into something resembling
> > human consciousness, but we have no metrics to describe that
> >awakening and thus no objective way to recognize it if it happens.
> >How would you test a claim like that?
> 
> Well, when you encounter a fellow meat creature I'l bet you have a
> method of determining if they are conscious and not sleeping or dead;
> in short you study the way they act. I suggest you try the same
method
> when you find a machine that claims to be conscious.

Yeah, but they don't taste as good...

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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