Pavitra comments on Minimum computation and data requirements for consciousness. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pavitra 25 August 2010 03:55:12AM 3 points [-]

Assume you do, in fact, have a consciousness detector. Do you trust it to work correctly in weird edge cases?

Humans have fairly advanced hardwired circuitry for detecting other humans, but our human detectors fail completely when presented with a photograph or a movie screen. We see a picture of a human, and it looks like a human.