if I tell you that I know what it's like to be Dan Garfield, do you believe me? why? that argument is what the Turing Test is about, and ultimately why it's unsatisfactory.
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Replying to @0Kultra @ColumPaget and
understood. conversational fluency is not a satisfactory indicator of consciousness. it is neither necessary nor sufficient. so we're left with the issue of qualia and stuck reasoning about why it is that we believe anything (besides our own self) is conscious at all.
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Replying to @danlistensto @0Kultra and
you either get "hard problem" or "free will is an illusion" or "God is good so I'm not a brain in a jar" or "everything is conscious"
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Replying to @danlistensto @0Kultra and
and that thing has free will if it is not constrained in its decisions by hostile force. You can be entirely predictable and still be exercising free will, and many people are/do.
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Replying to @0Kultra @danlistensto and
I don't think it's a clumsy antonym: I think most people know full well what they mean by the term. It's only philosophers who get confused.
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Getting confused by the obvious is a good definition of philosophy
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