Re: Dualism

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From: Neil Rickert
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:51

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In article <1992Sep13.201005.23853@galois.mit.edu> tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow) writes:
>                                                      But most of us have
>some intuition (even if some of us squelch it as incorrect) that the giant
>lookup table is not conscious.  By introducing the lookup table I hoped to
>awaken this intuition to show how one might argue that consciousness is a
>further fact beyond the facts that are accessible to us by means of tests.

Some of us have the intuition that the lookup table could not pass the
Turing test.  What does this do to your argument?

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