If I made an in silico simulation of a human brain that could convincingly match human cognition, what would stop you from believing that it was also conscious?
I wouldn’t say it wasn’t and I wouldn’t say it was.
A functional duplicate of a qualiaphile would report qualia, even if it didn’t have them, and a functional duplicate of a qualiaphobe would deny it had qualia even if it did.
Eta:
In other words, everything is predictable from who’s brain is emulated. We need some other test.
Cognition is the Easy Problem.
If I made an in silico simulation of a human brain that could convincingly match human cognition, what would stop you from believing that it was also conscious?
I wouldn’t say it wasn’t and I wouldn’t say it was.
A functional duplicate of a qualiaphile would report qualia, even if it didn’t have them, and a functional duplicate of a qualiaphobe would deny it had qualia even if it did.
Eta:
In other words, everything is predictable from who’s brain is emulated. We need some other test.