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In article <1992Sep13.201005.23853@galois.mit.edu>,
tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow) writes:

>Evan Hunt seems to believe that a machine that can pass the Turing
>test is conscious if and only if human beings are conscious.  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.

Not that this contradicts your point (you did say "most of us"), but I
*do* think that the giant lookup table is conscious. Only most of its
thinking is done at compile-time, rather than run-time.

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY