So two machines, identically programmed, would not be
conscious because their perspectives were not unique?
>Right now you think of
>me as most likley as Human. And in your experience humans are
conscious. If you
>were to find out now that I were a machine, I am willing to bet that
instead of
>granting me consciousness, you would change your mind about me and I
would be
>less than conscious all of a sudden.
That's so speculative as to be meaningless.
>You cant even consider the notion that a
>conscious machine can exist
On the contrary -- I believe "conscious machine" is actually
quite a good description of a person.
> yet you believe in a God and the Spiritual nature
>of humankind
I don't believe in any God, and I don't know what "the
Spiritual nature of humankind" means. But I do enjoy
teasing woolly thinkers.
-- Robin