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Could we recognize a conscious machine?

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Supposed that a computer scientist claims that he has successfully managed to invent a conscious computer and we who have zero knowledge of it yet are invited to interact with it and verify whether his claim is true. What tools do we have to make our verification here? Namely, what criterion would we use when we are thinking about consciousness? We may start to select some unique properties of consciousness which could hardly be simulated by other substances and therefore seems to be good criteria for most of us intuitively to judge consciousness in the computer.

Programs and Our Consciousness

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In the philosophy of consciousness, what we must first admit without any doubts is that we ourselves do have consciousness. Then, we attribute consciousness to other people around us or even apes and dogs based on some implicit assumptions. Finally, we may consider that a computer which is complex enough could have inner mind with consciousness. It is a quite natural path with a few steps when we considering consciousness. In this short essay, I will argue this consciousness path step by step in order to show that there are some defects in the consideration.