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xamuel on July 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What If Consciousness Comes First?

Above you wrote:

>The mistake is to think that something/someone could very convincingly _seem_ to be conscious but somehow not actually be conscious.

The puppet very convincingly seems to be conscious, but you yourself admit the puppet is not conscious.

AnIdiotOnTheNet on July 24, 2019 | [–]

But the puppet is being controlled by a conscious actor, so his assessment would still essentially be correct.

codeulike on July 24, 2019 | [–]

Ok whatever. This is kind of a tangent.

REPLACE('convincingly','convincingly, after reasonable efforts have been taken to eliminate deception as an explanation')

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