Timeline for Argument against conscious Turing machines?

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Nov 16, 2017 at 11:26	answer	added	user66136		timeline score: 1
Dec 9, 2013 at 18:37	answer	added	Michael		timeline score: 2
Dec 9, 2013 at 17:30	history	edited	John Eastmond	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 1 characters in body
Dec 9, 2013 at 17:30	comment	added	John Eastmond		However one can imagine a Turing machine running forever simply by enclosing its algorithm in an unconditional loop.
Dec 9, 2013 at 17:09	answer	added	Dave		timeline score: 3
Dec 9, 2013 at 17:04	comment	added	John Eastmond		I find it difficult to assume a human operator could live forever even in principle.
Dec 9, 2013 at 16:50	comment	added	JDH		Your argument would seem to apply just as well in the situation where it was the conscious machine operator who was "waking up" and asking himself what value the counter might now show.
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Dec 9, 2013 at 15:51	review	First posts
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Dec 9, 2013 at 15:35	history	asked	John Eastmond	CC BY-SA 3.0