From: Phil Goetz (philgoetz@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 20:06:41 MST
--- Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com> wrote:
> At 05:42 PM 1/17/2006 -0800, Phil wrote:
>
> >Woody has not proposed
> >any test that can be carried out by a human.
>
> Has in fact proposed (for a profoundly half-arsed value of
> "proposed") a
> test that specifically and by design *can't* be carried out by a
> human.
I didn't mean the test can't be taken by a human - I meant the test
can't be evaluated by a human. He said some stuff about how the
program must be conscious, with no suggestion as to how to determine
the outcome of the test.
- Phil
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