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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by lehmannro on Friday December 19, 2008 @08:13AM (#403301)
You all could be perfectly designed robots that are tricking me into believing you're also humans who experience consciousness.

If you rebuilt humans with whatever technology (we might use transistors, nature used neurons), how would they be different from real humans then? Why would you call the robot a trickster while saying you are no doubt conscious?

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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by tlrobinson on Friday December 19, 2008 @09:38AM (#403355)
Maybe a robot that perfectly mimics a human does have consciousness, but we don't know that, and I don't think we can know. That's all I'm saying.

For all I know I'm the only "being" in existence who really has this thing called consciousness that I know I experience, and all the rest of you aren't really "real".

I don't know why that would be, but it's a scary thought. Kind of like "The Matrix"...

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