[ExI] Digital Consciousness

[Gordon]

Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Consciousness does not necessarily follow from conscious-like behaviour, but it does necessarily follow from reproducing the functional behaviour of a system that we know to be conscious.


That looks like a contradiction to me. How is the reproduction of conscious-like behavior different from the reproduction of the functional behavior of a system that we know to be conscious? 

Gordon
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