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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  I daresay that no matter how much progress is made in neurophysiology, it will always be possible to say "Yes, but those are just the neural correlates of consciousness."
~~ Paul |
Obviously people vary on this. Personally, if AI had turned up something plausible (or if it does in the future) I would take that as nearly conclusive evidence of purely physical consciousness.
Of course, judging an AI might be difficult - particularly if it had access to the whole internet in order to make its responses.
David