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Originally Posted by Interesting Ian  I certainly do not think it is impossible. I've often mentioned that it should be eventually possible to build an android whose behaviour in practice (including everything it says) is indistinguishable from a human being's. Just like we'll be eventually be able to create a chess program where we cannot tell that it is a computer playing (we can tell now, computers play in a particular characteristic way). |
I am very surprised you say that - I think it is a complete theoretical abstraction to imagine an android indistinguishable in behaviour from a human - except not conscious (which is what I assume you mean).
Chess and similar problems are an incredibly narrow subset of human thought, and even there the computer has to use brute force methods to essentially cheat. Artificial Intelligence has been a spectacular failure, I would say. Just because Chalmers classifies certain problems as 'easy', does not mean they are really any easier than the 'hard' problems - just that they are currently not proven to be as hard as the hard problems.
I would guess that making an android behave as you describe, would be equivalent to solving the hard problems of consciousness.
David