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Could there ever be a viable test for artificial consciousness?

Devised by the late US philosopher John Searle in 1980, the ‘Chinese room’ thought experiment is one of the best-known challenges to the idea that programmed computers could be conscious. This animation from TED-Ed lays out Searle’s famed argument, which has drawn considerable criticism and........

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