How can we say we aren't biological organisms that seem to think?
>"I say again, that the body makes the mind"
The computer can have a body, it can have senses. They are different, and the computer therefore has a different type of intelligence. It might not be chocolate, but it is a flavor. -It is internalization and reaction to the environment.
Do dogs seem to think? Do dolphins seem to think? If we encountered alien life that weren't carbon-based, would we say they seem to think? What if we later found that these aliens were actually the progeny of constructs, built by ancient carbon-based creatures?
What if it were the reverse?
We can't determine if intelligence is genuine or not. No one can. We can only decide if the intelligence we percieve is a type that we identify with.
Computers can and do have fuzzy processing. They can run processes that generate different results with the same initial conditions. They can even give weight to different parallel processes, making some low-priority and fuzzy. As a result, I think we will start to identify with some computer intelligence before long.
I'm not going to kill a robot as it screams for mercy and its friends watch on in horror. And it won't be because I have been fooled.
Very interesting. But to me, this sounds like an argument for the soul.