How do you know an entity is conscious. You cant look into another man’s brain,or even that of an animal or insect. But if you kick a dog and it winces in pain—you know its conscious. What if a robot does the same too( even when its software does not have a hard coded pain function or a provision for protest).What if it protests against overwork? would that make it conscious? If not ,what would convice us that it is merely simulating distress and not experiencing it?
Could protest be a Turing Test for Consciousness?
How do you know an entity is conscious. You cant look into another man’s brain,or even that of an animal or insect. But if you kick a dog and it winces in pain—you know its conscious. What if a robot does the same too( even when its software does not have a hard coded pain function or a provision for protest).What if it protests against overwork? would that make it conscious? If not ,what would convice us that it is merely simulating distress and not experiencing it?