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It's not prima facie ridiculous that the DVD player might be conscious, as let's assume it is prima facie ridiculous - then it would be prima facie ridiculuos i
by logicallee 12y ago
It's not prima facie ridiculous that the DVD player might be conscious, as let's assume it is prima facie ridiculous - then it would be prima facie ridiculuos in 1969 with a tape player, in 1979 with a VCR, in 1989 with a CD-ROM drive, 1999 with a DVD-ROM drive, in 2009 with a Blu-RAY drive, in 2019 with x, in 2029 with y, and there is no reason it shouldn't still be prima facie ridiculous even if at some point along the way the thing happens to be conscious as a side-effect, without this being necessarily visible in its outputs. So you can't just call it prima facie ridiculous and be done with it - you need some other argument.