1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

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On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:20:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> based on one hell of a gigantic assumption: That consciousness 
> is a natural consequence of a sufficiently large neural net. 
> It's a fine and interesting idea, but PURELY speculative, with 
> zero evidence and not even any way of testing for evidence 
> since, like you say, we can't even figure out the first thing 
> about consciousness as it relates to ourselves and each other, 
> let alone to machines.

Given a large enough table one could encode perceived human 
behaviour with a lookup-table... So all we need is a computer 
program that itself claims to possess consciousness. Would that 
be a scam? Maybe Asame Obiomah is a computer program claiming to 
be a man writing a computer program. Would that make it 
intelligent? Hm.