16. Penetrating the Other-Minds Barrier Through Implementation-Independence
17. Multiple Minds? The Searlean Test [ST]
"Searlean Test" (ST), be the candidate, execute the code oneself, and fail to experience the mental state (understanding) that is being
attributed to the pen-pal. As one has no intuitive inclination whatsoever to impute extra mental states to oneself in the face of clear
1st-person evidence that one lacks them, the ST should, by the transitivity of implementation-independence, rule out all purely
computational T2-passers.
A purely computational T2-passer, in other words, is Turing-distinguishable from a candidate with a mind, and the way to make the
distinction is to be the candidate, via the ST.
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