On naturalism and consciousness

[Whateverist]

And yet that's the same demand which you made of physicalism above. That's special pleading.

None of your declarations about what experience is establish that it is what you say. They're just bare assertions.

What I said had nothing all to do with what experience is on a metaphysical level. All that matters is what can be known. Any thing beyond what can be known is unfounded speculation.

But is it really "what can be known" or "what is assumed"?

Declarations based on interpretations of subjective experience are not automatically valid. That one has subjective experience is a given. But the only thing that can be assumed to be valid is the phenomenology of the experience, not its interpretation.

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Would a machine with 32x the brute force power (imagine the programming options) of something like SPARC T3 be in the running for a pass on a Turing test, judging by our benchmark of today-in your estimation?

That bar is way too low. Hell, when I was a kid at Disneyland the robotic parrots near the jungle ride passed with flying colors.