X-Message-Number: 32936
Subject: Re: experimental validation of uploading
From: David Stodolsky <>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:22:11 +0200
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On 14 Oct 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:

> Conscious animals evolved from inanimate 
> matter, in the stuff of inanimate matter. Occam's razor brings the burden of 
> proof to those who would suppose, without warrant, that there is something 
> unknown and magical, some tertium quid/quintessence, that lets a brain make 

> consciousness and that keeps anything else, including a machine, from making 
it. 

This is not using Occam properly. 

The flaw is in assuming that 'consciousness' can exist in machines, which is an 
Assuming the Consequent error.


First you must define 'consciousness'. Then you must perform a test of the null 
hypothesis: A machine can't be conscious.


dss

David Stodolsky
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