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The speaker distinguishes performance testing from consciousness: Turing’s test ignores a machine’s consciousness and internal mechanisms, while consciousness depends on whether the system has subjective experience.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“Turing doesn't care about whether the, um, machine is also conscious, whether it has the same internal mechanisms. But for consciousness, we do care whether there is an actual experience of what it's like in the system.”35:35Report a misattribution
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