By “conscious from a linguistic perspective”, I mean that we cannot distinguish it from a conscious being purely through linguistic interactions (ie Turing tests). I probably should have said “conscious from a linguistic (text-based) perspective” to be more precise.
Said differently, I expect that the set of cognitive activities required to support linguistic behavior that we can’t distinguish from, say, my own (supposing here that I’m a conscious being) in a sufficiently broad range of linguistic interactions correlates highly enough with any other measure of “this is a conscious being” I might care to use that any decision procedure that files a system capable of such activities/behavior as “nonconscious” will also file conscious beings that way.
By “conscious from a linguistic perspective”, I mean that we cannot distinguish it from a conscious being purely through linguistic interactions (ie Turing tests). I probably should have said “conscious from a linguistic (text-based) perspective” to be more precise.
OK, fair enough. The second response applies.
Said differently, I expect that the set of cognitive activities required to support linguistic behavior that we can’t distinguish from, say, my own (supposing here that I’m a conscious being) in a sufficiently broad range of linguistic interactions correlates highly enough with any other measure of “this is a conscious being” I might care to use that any decision procedure that files a system capable of such activities/behavior as “nonconscious” will also file conscious beings that way.