Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read
My argument surrounding the Turing test is more like:
- Nagel says that the way to validate his criteria for consciousness (that it is like something to be something) is our ability to imagine ourselves as that thing.
- There is this test, called the Turing test, that some machines have passed, where humans claim they are unable to imagine the machine as anything but another human — they claim it is not a machine at all.
- Therefore some machines satisfy Nagel’s criteria for consciousness.
