Just to toss off one more worthwhile idea to you since it seems like you're interested in this topic. p-zombies is not the most challenging scenario strong-AI

Just to toss off one more worthwhile idea to you since it seems like you're interested in this topic. p-zombies is not the most challenging scenario strong-AI deniers are likely to face. Brain cell replacement is. With p-zombies you have two observers outside the system arguing about the system's inner life. With brain cell replacement, you have the subject directly and quite authoritatively experiencing the system in question and reporting back. It seems many times more likely some of us will live to see this, but you just never know. Newtonian mechanics had it all locked up save for a few details and look what those details held. Every brain science / cog-sci paper it seems has some alternative amputating conclusions to pronounce about consciouness. They sort of have to do that because of the funding model they live under. Positive results only ! It's not the researcher's fault; I don't fault them. I just adopt a highly skeptical, wait and see, there's-probably-more-to-the-story attitude generally in science, that, and the more concrete counter-arguments I mentioned in my other comments make me a very highly dissident observer of this field.