(November 28, 2012 at 11:12 am)whateverist Wrote: Even so, I am not impressed that we are very close at all to understanding how conscious beings work.
Yeah we're really not. We might be able to create machines that can simulate consciousness but that in no way means we are close to creating machines with consciousness.
If it ever happens that we do achieve such a feat, it will be hundreds of years in the future.