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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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Is My Dog Tarski Conscious?

I can tell that Tarski is conscious not on behavioristic grounds. People say well it's because he behaves like a human being. He doesn't. See human beings I know when they see me don't rush up and lick my hands and wag their tails. They just don't. My friends don't do that but Tarski does. And this thing here, my smartphone is not conscious. I don't have any doubts about either one. But what the general, it's not even a theory that I hold. It's a background presupposition. The way I assume that the floor is solid,. I simply take it for granted that everybody's conscious. If forced to

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