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“The best way to check a things status as “thinking” or not is, under Okham’s razor just as it is under Cartesian doubt, to ask the thing itself.”

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“Because of this disregard for consciousness weak and strong AI become one in the same and more so fit the strong AI definition by being able to report on brain processes as mental states no different from the human brain.”

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 “Ultimately, though reductionism may be considered by some as arbitrary or as an irrelevant form of philosophy in the minds and bodies debate, it is still an important viewpoint in contemporary discussions on the philosophy of the mind because it is reductionist.”  

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“As no matter how many behaviours AI exhibits that we can link to what we believe consciousness is, it is unverifiable as to if they are, or ever will be, ‘strong AI’. In the sense that they can only mimic what we experience as ‘consciousness’, from the first person perspective.”

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 “Unless we are able to invent a way to jack into one’s consciousness and emulate their consciousness and thoughts matrix style, than I do believe that physicalism/materialism reduces the concept of the mind far too much.” 

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“To test if an AI could think, you’d have to become an AI. No satisfying answer can be provided to whether or not AI can be conscious as consciousness cannot be tested.”

Who wrote this? “Therefore, to truly view the consciousness, I believe that we should look at it without a reductive lens if we wish to understand it.”

Who wrote this? “In our modern society, many individuals have turned to becoming materialists/physicalists, since it is easier to understand that the mind and thoughts belonging to it are simply “brain processes”…”

Who wrote this? “a satisfying answer to this would be proving that an AI can be conscious or proving that strong AI can exist. With those definitions out of the way the question at hand can be takled.”

Who wrote this? “a definition of consciousness will likely be offered when our understanding of the term is constructed by our first-person and therefore subjective phenomenal experiences.”

Who wrote this? “We can only perceive consciousness through our first person perspectives and we can only see AI through our third person perspective…”

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“There is no technology or knowledge available to fully answer the mind-body problem.”

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"...if everything comes from something, matter that cannot be created or destroyed, a dualist's argument that the mind is nonphysical means we are barred that fate."

Who wrote this? In defense of Duelism, it hasn't exactly been approved or dispproved. (Shrodinger's argument if you will. Both true and false at the same time).

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Dualism itself can touch on physicalism in a sense due to one of the two concepts being just that.

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"Humans can create the physical so to a materialist, AI could be made free thinking, because according to them the brain is a physical representation of the soul."

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"Ockhams razor would be used better for materialism because it is free from nomological danglers. Where as in dualism there can be countless danglers on brain states and mental states."

Who wrote this? "I also think there's a mental or non-physical concept which is our minds and souls that can't be replicated or explained by any physical process."

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"Artificial Intelligence does not possess a body though it does possess a mind of its own gaining intelligence from learning a prior knowledge that is presented to them, much like humans who need to gain schema during their younger years."

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"AI simply is inside a physical substance, and only has the intelligence once we program it and operate it to do so."

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"Because if there is just a physical body everyone would be the same. Would have the same brain processes. But it isn't everyone is different, feels different, thinks different, loves different..."