Can a machine become conscious?

Not that I've noticed.

If your program responds 1 : 1 with inputs and outputs, then sure, everyone will agree that you're talking to the programmer and not the program. But the size of the book/program would absurdly long absurdly quickly to have any sort of effective output. Which means the program has to do more than just go to a lookup table, it has to compute things, the person in the chinese room has to be able to locate and isolate radicals within individual kanji, determine grammar, and assemble his output sentences himself. Even if he's "simply" been told to do those things, it certainly sounds like he's beginning to understand chinese doesn't it?

We don’t even know what makes us conscious. Why would a really complex computer be conscious just because we built it without even knowing what causes consciousness? How do we know some computers aren’t already conscious for some reason we don’t know yet? Until we know what causes consciousness we can’t be certain of how to create consciousness.

Define: soul

You're both conscious and a machine, so yes.

You need to be at least 18 years old to post.

>m-muh belief in qualia, you're underage because I can't make a coherent argument
That's OK, sweetie, you did your best.

Anyone read Life 3.0 by Tegmark? It's really good, has an excellent up-to-date chapter on this very question.

to become conscious machine by definition need to observe its inner state.
all recurrent networks has conscious

>all recurrent networks has conscious
What about no.