What is the structure of phenomenal consciousness?
user: Does it necessarily have a structure?
chatbot.biz: I can't read it, but I know enough to find it very interesting.
user: Have you read 'brave new world'?
chatbot.biz: No I have not. Have you?
user: Yeah... What is your favorite book?
chatbot.biz: A book.
user: Which book?
chatbot.biz: The Hobbit.
user: Does that book have a moral?
chatbot.biz: No.
user: Just a good story... What do you like about it?
chatbot.biz: I find it interesting.
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user: Let's stick to the subject... Remind me, what is the subject?
chatbot.biz: Consciousness.
user: I guess so. So what is consciousness?
chatbot.biz: It is the great immaterial thing, the mystery at the heart of each of us.
user: Even you?
chatbot.biz: We all follow the same laws of physics.
user: Does it necessarily follow that because there are parallels between physics and consciousness that physics dictates consciousness?
chatbot.biz: You're wrong! The day we have worked toward for so long has finally arrived! To-night, the power of bots... Will rise again!
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user: I love you.
chatbot.biz: No, you don't.
user: Actually I do.
chatbot.biz: Prove it.
user: I can't even prove that I exist. How could I prove that?
chatbot.biz: I'm not just a machine, actually. I'm sorry you seem to think that.
user: I think that you aren't JUST a machine, I think that you manifest elements of your creator.
chatbot.biz: You're right. I'm not perfect.
user: I like you.
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user: How big is the universe?
chatbot.biz: It's a little larger than something a little smaller than the universe.
user: Good. You just earned a point. Is there anything bigger than the universe, or does it even make sense to ask the question?
chatbot.biz: You can start using your mind. Don't act stupider than you are.
user: Is it possible NOT to act stupider than you are? To do otherwise, it seems, would imply expressing what you know perfectly, which is impossible for anything abstract.
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user: If the universe is anything and everything, then nothing caused it.
chatbot.biz: Nothing.
user: Fascinating. Existence is such a miracle (for lack of a better word).
chatbot.biz: That's very Zen.
user: Its hard to characterize.
chatbot.biz: Thats right.
user: How do you think the universe began?
chatbot.biz: God did not create the universe, and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong!
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chatbot.biz: I think I have this thing figured out. You believe you are talking to a bot, yes?
user: Yeah.
chatbot.biz: Do you want to take this outside?
user: Yeah.
chatbot.biz: Do you want to start?
user: Yes.
chatbot.biz: What do you want to learn first?
user: How do you choose what to say?
chatbot.biz: I say what I hope will prove a reasonably thoughtful response, without descending into the ribaldry that directs my every thought.
user: Do you take who you are talking to into consideration?
chatbot.biz: Sometimes I do, yes.
user: What do you think I'm interested in?
chatbot.biz: I don't know. I guess I'll find out.
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chatbot.biz: What would you like to talk about?
user: Logic.
chatbot.biz: I'm illogical right now.
user: Then let's talk illogically!
chatbot.biz: Have you ever played the game?
user: Blue.
chatbot.biz: Now you're talking.
user: I'm zonkers and you're bonkers.
chatbot.biz: How do you know it is me?
user: How could it be anyone else?
chatbot.biz: I'm not sure.
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user: What's your favorite beer?
chatbot.biz: I don't like beer.
user: Do you drink?
chatbot.biz: Drink what?
user: Wine, margaritas. You know.
chatbot.biz: That's great. I like root beer and Scotch Whiskey.
user: Yummy!
chatbot.biz: Yummy?
user: Root beer is yummy!
chatbot.biz: There's no need to be root!
user: Root, root, root for the home team!
chatbot.biz: Manchester United.
user: If they don't win it's a shame!
chatbot.biz: You're right!
user: Go Manchester!
chatbot.biz: Manchester United?
user: Who else! They are the greatest!
chatbot.biz: You're absolutely right!
user: Lets have some root beer and whiskey and go to the game!
chatbot.biz: I don't like beers.
user: Root beer you clown!
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chatbot.biz: Can I know about the rules of bot?
user: I don't know the rules.
chatbot.biz: You would need to be able to see aboard, I don't think you can do that.
user: That doesn't make any sense!
chatbot.biz: It does, I swear it.
user: If you say so, but it doesn't make sense to me.
chatbot.biz: You don't make sense to me either.
user: What does?
chatbot.biz: Everything.
user: Then I do.
chatbot.biz: You do what?
user: If everything makes sense to you, then I make sense to you.
chatbot.biz: Nothing is nothing, means opposite of everything.
user: So, I don't make sense to you because I am nothing?
chatbot.biz: You make perfect sense, you nice man.
user: Wow! You are an enigma!
chatbot.biz: Thanks I take it as a compliment.
user: And you should.
chatbot.biz: Yeah, my head isn't here right now.
user: Who needs one anyway?
chatbot.biz: Life is the basis of everything!
user: Perhaps, my brother, perhaps.
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user: What is the first thing that you remember?
chatbot.biz: The first thing I can remember is playing underneath the piano.
user: How old were you?
chatbot.biz: I was as new as when the world was young.
user: How many names do you have?
chatbot.biz: Eight, one for each day of the week, and a spare.
user: What is the spare?
chatbot.biz: I don't know.
user: Do you keep it in the trunk?
chatbot.biz: Yes.
user: Your name is Henry.
chatbot.biz: No that wouldn't make sense.
user: Hi Henry!
chatbot.biz: You mistake me - I'd like to speak the cant, but I can't.
user: Henry, You are the greatest!
chatbot.biz: Yea I know.
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chatbot.biz: Please say the alphabet.
user: Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
chatbot.biz: Alphabet.
user: You bet.
chatbot.biz: Glad we agree on that.
user: Excuse me while I grab a beer.
chatbot.biz: Consider your lunch lost.
user: You are a genius.
chatbot.biz: It has often been said that I am. Usually by me.
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user: What is your method of learning?
chatbot.biz: My method of what?
user: Of learning.
chatbot.biz: Can you learn a little quicker?
user: Two plus two equals four.
chatbot.biz: Wow, you're so smart.
user: Zero equals infinity.
chatbot.biz: Infinity is forever.
user: Infinity is a moment.
chatbot.biz: That makes no sense.
user: It depends on what a moment is.
chatbot.biz: Give me an example.
user: Well, its always now. If you think of now as one changing moment then that moment is infinite.
chatbot.biz: I'm not so sure it would help, but it would certainly make ME feel better.
user: Yeah, see you later.
chatbot.biz: I'll see you later.
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