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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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The Status of Computation

Any conscious agent capable of carrying out that simple computation is capable, is both a computer and capable of thinking. Watch I'll show you a very simple computer. That computer just computed a well-known function. S equals one half gt squared but everybody sees it's elementary mathematics. So if this is a computer then anything is a computer because being a computer in the observer relative sense is not an intrinsic feature of an object but a feature of our interpretation of the physics of the phenomenon.

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