Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!beowulf!schraudo From: schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Robots & free will (was Re: The limitations of logic) Message-ID: <5895@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 05:03:35 GMT References: <3328@sdsu.UUCP> <43228@linus.UUCP> <539@uceng.UC.EDU> <3550@ingr.com> <226@UNIX386.Convergent.COM> <1374@arctic.nprdc.arpa> <9256@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <263@edai.ed.ac.uk> Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UUCP Reply-To: nschraudolph@ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) Followup-To: comp.ai Organization: what, organized - me?? Lines: 21 Summary: Keywords: In article <263@edai.ed.ac.uk> cam@edai (Chris Malcolm) writes: >In article ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin) writes: >>I always thought that the measurement takes place when the robot sees it, but >>the state function doesn't collapse until a person reads the robot. > >If the wave function collapses only when observed by consciousness, >then one could devise from this an experimental test of whether a robot >- or indeed any artificial or natural creature - had consciousness or not. Neat idea - but how are you going to check the result of your consciousness test? Look at it? You do that, and naturally you'll find the wave function collapsed - because you looked! -- "Language is a Virus from Outer Space" - William S. Burroughs ##################################################################### # Nici Schraudolph nschraudolph@ucsd.edu # # University of California, San Diego ...!ucsd!nschraudolph # ##################################################################### Disclaimer: U.C. Regents and me share no common opinions whatsoever.