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The parent explicitly hypothesised a conscious program. You can argue that such a thing is impossible, but assuming that it is, arguing that such a program wou
by aninhumer 10y ago
The parent explicitly hypothesised a conscious program.
You can argue that such a thing is impossible, but assuming that it is, arguing that such a program would be comparable to a shell script is facile.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoIts a mechanistic argument, that says no machinery is capable of consciousness. How do you decide if software is conscious? For instance, it could print "I'm conscious! Oh! I'm suffering!"
- aninhumer 10y ago>How do you decide if software is conscious? How do you decide if a human is conscious? I don't think we know enough about the nature of consciousness to state with certainty that a "machine" is incapable of it.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoI'm currently residing inside a human right now. I 'know' what consciousness is, at least for me.