Please Try and Help Terri...... 4106

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:22:49 +0000, Logan Shaw

Ok, how about you demontrate to me that you have some of this ineffable....something any more than an AI would. Who's to say that what gives it to us wouldn't also give it to a sufficiently intelligent machine? And, here's the important part....how would you tell, aside from a *belief* that something is different about AIs? The point about an AI that could pbutt the Turing Test is that you could sit down with one, have a conversation with it, and never know you weren't talking to a person. If that's the case (which is the basic buttumption talked about at the moment), how would you know? You'd just go around saying, "oh sure, it's completely and utterly indistinguishable from a human conversationally, can think and learn like any human, adapt like any human, and basically do anything that any human can do....but they aren't the same, they lack...uh...something that makes us concious." Yeah, that'd make you sound about as intelligent as those people who once claimed that neither Native Americans, nor Africans, had souls (yes it was argued by prominant religious figures back in the 1600s).....or those who today say certain races are inferior on account of their skin color.

Might as well nip this idiocy now, before it becomes an issue.