No belief-theoretic mistake is considered one by those who make it. We should be thinking about what’s true, not what people think, to find out whether the premise is false. If your functional duplicate says it’s conscious, that’s going to be for the same reasons you would, and you couldn’t deduce your consciousness from talking about it any more than you could deduce the duplicate’s consciousness from its talking about it. As the link explains.
No belief-theoretic mistake is considered one by those who make it. We should be thinking about what’s true, not what people think, to find out whether the premise is false. If your functional duplicate says it’s conscious, that’s going to be for the same reasons you would, and you couldn’t deduce your consciousness from talking about it any more than you could deduce the duplicate’s consciousness from its talking about it. As the link explains.