TheOtherDave comments on The flawed Turing test: language, understanding, and partial p-zombies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SaidAchmiz 20 May 2013 07:29:21PM 0 points [-]

Oh, and on the subject of whole brain emulations: Greg Egan's recent novel Zendegi (despite being, imo, rather poor overall), does make a somewhat convincing case that an emulation of a person's brain/consciousness/personality might pass something like a Turing test and still not possess subjective consciousness or true general intelligence on a human level.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 May 2013 07:47:20PM 4 points [-]

When this topic comes up I'm always reminded of a bit in John Varley's Golden Globe, where our hero asks an advanced AI whether it's actually conscious, and it replies "I've thought about that question a lot and have concluded that I'm probably not."