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If you know I'm a human being, like you are, then you can safely assume I'm conscious.

As far as writing messages alone, that could be software.

Why can you assume other humans are conscious?

Has someone written a better Turing test, like the Voight-Kampff test in Blade Runner, but to establish a conscious mind?

The difficulty is creating a test that passes all known humans, as well as some animals; while failing machine algorithms meant to reproduce human and animal behavior.

Like so many fixed things in life, "consciousness" seems to be a frontier, not a demarcation.

For instance, if you're having a lucid dream, are you conscious or unconscious?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

Every human has roughly the same nervous system, with the same structure and functional properties. Unless consciousness is some magical non-physical thing (which we have no reason to believe), it would be absurd to believe that that a healthy, awake, non-brain-damaged person isn't conscious.

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