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> Other humans share a similar biology, so we have good enough justification to think they're conscious. That's the way it goes with these arguments: it always
by mannykannot 7y ago
> Other humans share a similar biology, so we have good enough justification to think they're conscious.
That's the way it goes with these arguments: it always comes down to an appeal to what's reasonable or plausible (those who insist consciousness must be an algorithm are doing the same thing, at least until we have algorithms that seem to be making some progress on the hard problem.) One might equally say other humans share a similar physics. When Dennett said "we are all p-zombies", I suspect he was making the point that it would be highly tendentious to take the position that anything both behaving and functioning physically in the manner of a human would not be conscious, except for humans themselves.