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Don't blame me, I voted for chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers).
>Give me an idea of how the facts about consciousness are entailed
>by the physical facts about a system.  Your attempt above consists
>in pointing that such a system will act as if it's conscious -- but
>acting as if one is conscious is clearly logically compatible with
>the absence of consciousness.

One cannot measure consciousness in a system (or in a person) save by
evaluation of the system's (or person's) behavior.  Your replica seems
just as conscious as you; can you suggest any further test I might
subject it to that would prove it nonsentient?

It can indeed be logically argued that "being conscious" and "acting
conscious" are separate, but unless "being conscious" is independently
measureable, the assertion can never be proven.

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