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Comment author: gjm 28 August 2014 11:39:18PM 0 points [-]

That is my point [...]

Then I have no idea what you meant by "If you use the language test then yes and FHE encrypted sm with a lost key is still conscious".

the specific input and output being only a yes or no answer makes it no better than the computers we are using right now.

If I ask you a question and somehow constrain you only to answer yes or no, that doesn't stop you being conscious as you decide your answer. There's a simulation of your whole brain in there, and it arrives at its yes/no answer by doing whatever your brain usually does to decide. All that's unusual is the context. (But the context is very unusual.)

Comment author: cameroncowan 29 August 2014 02:32:29AM 0 points [-]

I would say that no the FHE is not because the most important aspect of language is communication and meaning. The ability to communicate matters not as long as it cannot have meaning to at least one other person. Upon the 2nd point we are agreed.