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Is anyone but you conscious? If so, how can you be certain?

• lisper 7y ago
  > Is anyone but you conscious? Yes. > If so, how can you be certain? I can't be absolutely certain of that nor of anything else. The philosophical-zombie hypothesis cannot be ruled out by evidence. But I observe others producing complex I/O behavior that is qualitatively similar to that which I produce and that I attribute to my own consciousness. I also see evidence that my consciousness supervenes on the operation of my brain, and I observe that other people have brains. The most parsimonious explanation for all that is that other humans are also conscious.
  • procgen 7y ago
    Do you have any sense of what the simplest conscious system looks like? Can we construct one from legos in an aircraft hangar?
    • lisper 7y ago
      > Do you have any sense of what the simplest conscious system looks like? Nope. > Can we construct one from legos in an aircraft hangar? Almost certainly not. We can't even construct one on a silicon chip (yet).