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That's nice. But too many people can't tell the difference between supporting an idea and publishing a repeatable experiment to test a falsifiable hypothesis i
by mseebach 13y ago
That's nice.
But too many people can't tell the difference between supporting an idea and publishing a repeatable experiment to test a falsifiable hypothesis in a peer reviewed journal.
- regal 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
- mseebach 13y agoWell, then, what's the point of signing a declaration 40 years later?
- RivieraKid 13y agoIt should be possible with current technology to create a robot, that would react positively to mirror test.
- mseebach 13y agoThe experiment should be blind, which would be quite hard to design. At least, the robot designers wouldn't know that the mirror test would be the test, but ideally they would never have heard of the mirror test, indeed, they should have no good grasp of what a mirror even is.
- Zigurd 13y agoWhy is "self concept" equated to consciousness? When a split-brain patient's self-reported notion of "self" makes up a story to cover for not knowing why they performed some action, what part of their mind actually made the decision to act?
- aptwebapps 13y agoThe difference is that the second is science and the first is every thing else. They are signing it to give the idea greater credence outside of their community, not within it. Obviously they hope to influence the world at large.
- stiff 13y agoWhat has this to do with anything? They issued the declaration to put to attention conclusions exactly from "repeatable experiments testing falsifiable hypothesis in a peer reviewed journal".