Re: 3 "Real" Conscious Machines [WAS Re: Singularity: A rock 'em, shock'em ending soon?]

From: Woody Long (ironanchorpress@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 16:15:49 MST


> [Original Message]
> From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> To: <sl4@sl4.org>
>
> I'm not Loosemoore (sp?), but yes, I accept the Turing Test and its
> variants, including this one, as an acceptable test of conciousness.
>
> > If so you will conclude that my droids are in fact conscious
> > machines,
>
> Nope. Not until I talk to one. Until then, you're just A Crazy
> Person.
>
> -Robin

Agreed. The "If so you will conclude" part means precisely "you will
conclude after you have talked to one in a live demonstration." However,
this is also one positive vote for the Searle Test as the measuring rod for
conscious machines, meaning if it passes, I get your vote. And yes, the
Lucas Droid Trademark and my Droid Patent should work as a team, and he is
in fact, the first on my list to have talk to my prototype in a private
demonstration sometime in February 2006.

Ken Woody Long



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