-- which is how I've described this project elsewhere.
If it were actually implemented, I think, as I say in the Prefatory note, that it might provide us with a concrete platform with which to go beyond thought-experiments finally, and actually try out some conjectures. My idea, in other words, is not so much to build functioning robots, but to use this project, with its concrete, practical focus, as a means to help clarify some of the very confused and confusing notions that swirl around this whole area. For this reason, there will likely be an ongoing focus in this blog on philosophical issues, and on how they're affected by even a proposal for a project of this sort. So the project, even without implementation, might function as a kind of extended thought-experiment.
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