I've thought about turning this upside down. To any person who is sure they know what has and doesn't have consciousness: If I say I don't have it, can you prove me wrong?

As far as I'm concerned, it's a word without a useful enough definition to bother worrying about it.

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goatlover 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's subjective experience. The colors you see, the sounds you hear, tastes, smell, pain, emotion, dreams, inner dialog. The philosophical word would be qualia.

I don't understand people who pretend to be p-zombies in these arguments.

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xscott 2 days ago | parent [-]

Your definition is not useful enough. There are people missing any or all of those, and any or all of those can be approximated by a machine.

	▲	goatlover a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not aware of anyone lacking all those experiences who isn't brain dead. What does approximating an experience by a machine mean? A chatbot can pretend to be cold. It can't actually feel cold as it has no body.