I agree that this is a poor premise. The Turing Test is obviously racist. I am sure that my dog and cat are conscious. And I believe there are forms of consciousness in the universe that are as different from us as we are from an amoeba. Consider a large star or even the Sun. It has very complex oscillatory modes that we don't understand. Fifteen years ago my then young daughter and I had a philosophical conversation about stars as potentially conscious entities.
I agree that this is a poor premise. The Turing Test is obviously racist. I am sure that my dog and cat are conscious. And I believe there are forms of consciousness in the universe that are as different from us as we are from an amoeba. Consider a large star or even the Sun. It has very complex oscillatory modes that we don't understand. Fifteen years ago my then young daughter and I had a philosophical conversation about stars as potentially conscious entities.