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The experience of pain is not the same thing as reaction to pain. Humans and neural nets both display the latter, but the only instance of the former we can obs
by aninhumer 10y ago
The experience of pain is not the same thing as reaction to pain. Humans and neural nets both display the latter, but the only instance of the former we can observe is in oneself.
It's possible neural nets do experience pain, but we have no way of knowing that (any more than we do of knowing that other humans do).
- Houshalter 10y ago>The experience of pain is not the same thing as reaction to pain. I'm claiming the neural net does experience pain. It's not merely a reaction, like screaming "ow!" It's actually experiencing it. Internally, the neural net would experience directing its attention at the source of the pain, a deep desire to avoid it, and everything else that humans do. >It's possible neural nets do experience pain, but we have no way of knowing that (any more than we do of knowing that other humans do). That's just silly. Clearly pain, like everything else, must be a real physical thing that exists and can be observed. If it's a real process that is casually connected to us and the universe, that is. If it's not real or causally connected to us, then how can it exist or be relevant?