Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Theory of mind - on the computer. a bit funny (or not)/reply (7)

The "me" that encompasses a body and the "me" that is independent of that is a very good point. I mean, contrast the standard Turing Test where everything is conducted via a text terminal and the Total Turing Test where your AI needs to look and listen, and actually feel objects to make its decisions. Though, so long as you're aware of those two bounds and are clear what you're talking about, I don't think there's much of a problem to say that a computerised "me" is still "me" in a body-independent sense. Otherwise being blinded or paralysed would also cause someone to cease being "them".