Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipna!cam From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Testing for machine consciousness Message-ID: <3298@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Date: 18 Oct 90 18:54:39 GMT References: <3499@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1990Oct4.154655.23004@canon.co.uk> <7@tdatirv.UUCP> <1990Oct8.120927.8648@canon.co.uk> <21@tdatirv.UUCP> <1990Oct12.074325.688@canon.co.uk> <31@tdatirv.UUCP> Reply-To: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK. Lines: 11 In article mikeb@wdl31.wdl.fac.com (Michael H Bender) writes: >(By the way -- how can we build something >we can't even define?) Fascinating question! I would love to know HOW it is that I do it; I have no doubt THAT I do it quite often when implementing experimental research prototypes. -- Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna 031 667 1011 x2550 Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK