Steven Schkolne
Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read

My argument surrounding the Turing test is more like:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Therefore some machines satisfy Nagel’s criteria for consciousness.
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    South African/American Caltech CS PhD, turned international artist, turned questioner of everything we assume to be true about technology. Also 7 feet tall.