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Mind Constituted by a Rabbit Reading and Writing on Long Strips of Turing Tape?
- robotresearcher 9y agoThe rabbit part is pointless. It has to be a perfect rule-following rabbit that lives arbitrarily long. i.e., not an actual rabbit. I'm not sure what the impossible rabbit adds to the argument, and it certainly takes something away.
- exelius 9y agoI'm not sure this argument is any more plausible than the "evil genius" argument from Descartes. I think that all it's saying is that given our limited reference frame within the universe, we can't judge what is "normal" and what is not. And that's basically a definitional observation.
- twic 9y agoI haven't read the article; is this the Chinese Room Argument? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/