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Comment author: TheOtherDave 17 April 2011 03:48:19PM 0 points [-]

A lookup table might be theoretically incapable of exhibiting human-like behavior due to the limited memory and computational capacity of this universe.

Yeah, that's my expectation. So confirming the actual existence of a human-like GLUT would cause me to sharply revise many of my existing beliefs on the whole subject.

My confidence, in that scenario, that the GLUT was not conscious would not be very high.