So… The basis of his argument is “computers are not capable of consciousness because they are different”, and he doesn’t feel the need to define what conscious thought is, or is not?
I would have expected the professor of computer science at Yale to have a quality that computers would have to evolve, emulate, or simulate, and an intrinsic reason that would make it an impossible task to unilaterally say “computers are the wrong kind of stuff”.
So… The basis of his argument is “computers are not capable of consciousness because they are different”, and he doesn’t feel the need to define what conscious thought is, or is not?
I would have expected the professor of computer science at Yale to have a quality that computers would have to evolve, emulate, or simulate, and an intrinsic reason that would make it an impossible task to unilaterally say “computers are the wrong kind of stuff”.