PhilGoetz comments on Outline of a lower bound for consciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 January 2010 05:35:49PM *  0 points [-]

You can't, because you can interpret any system as a symbolic reasoning system. You don't need to ask whether a system is a symbolic reasoning system; you need to ask whether it's conscious.