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And we're back to category mistakes. What conveys the property of experience on the machine which has adapted a mechanical trick?

• naasking 8y ago
  You have no evidence that experience is not mechanistic. There is literally no reason to suppose consciousness is any different than any other natural phenomenon we study. So reproducing whatever mechanistic process is at play ensures that such a machine had experience. You're simply assuming there must be a separate category either because you want one to exist, or because you've been fooled into thinking consciousness has some properties that you consider irreducible to more basic components.
  • bencollier49 8y ago
    "When I express the problem in terms of mechanistic logic, I am unable to prove the existence of something which is neither mechanistic nor apparently logical".
    • naasking 8y ago
      "When I express the problem using well-defined and coherent terminology, I am unable to prove the existence of something which is neither well-defined or coherent".