Where does consciousness come from?
tsally: Woah, woah, woah.  What's this business of talking about consciousness like it exists?  The only thing you know for sure is conscious is yourself.  You simply make assumptions that other people are conscious based off of their responses to various challenges (questions, interaction, etc).  But you don't know whether their 'consciousness' is even remotely related to yours or not.This is why the Turing test does not seek to address the issue of consciousness.  It simply tests the appearance of consciousness.  We will _never_ know anything about the consciousness of anything else besides ourselves.