> Of course we take the pragmatic approach of deciding things that look like suffering to us is suffering.
Hence why I said this. There is nothing you can use to believe a human's claims over the text-to-speech's claims, so we choose what looks like suffering to us. However, my point is that it is an arbitrary choice.
> There is nothing you can use to believe a human's claims over the text-to-speech's claims
Of course there is. The human facing me looks similar to me so I can interpolate its claims with my own experience of being an human.
I thinks it’s also for the same reason that we have variable degrees of empathy against animals : the more the animal looks like us (that can be size, number of members, physically, in terms of effective communication…), the more, on average, we have empathy for them.
This can go to the extent that people commonly feel « something » about their cars and their human-face-like designs combined with their single ability to move.
Yes, but this is arbitrary. That is my point. There's no reason to believe that you can extrapolate your own subjective experience to others based on their similarity to you.
But you are choosing to use the Turing test, which tests a form of intelligence, as a proxy to determine whether to believe the claim. A Turing test does not preclude philosophical zombies. It does not demonstrate anything about consciousness.