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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 27 2008,17:44   

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Another property, if we accept the Popperian view, is falsifiability. Well, I must emphasize again that all the “negative” tests I have suggested are potential ways to falsify my view: in other words, if and when you will produce a machine which freely generates consciousness and CSI as the human brain is supposed to do, you will have falsified my assumption that machines cannot do that, and that a transcendental I is necessary to have that result.

gpuccio, you need to come over and explain something.  When someone comes up with a super-duper machine that supposedly does all that, how would you check empirically whether it “freely generates consciousness and CSI”?  

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