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Why would it? A computer has no nervous system or self preservation biology that would make use of pain signals.
by root_axis 7y ago
Why would it? A computer has no nervous system or self preservation biology that would make use of pain signals.
- monort 7y agoWe are talking about pain, not a pain signal. Decrementing register can be a pain signal, but it can't produce feeling of pain (qualia). If humans can be simulated on a Turing machine, we can't feel that definition of pain too.
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoIf we make a robot sufficiently similar to us, it would indeed feel pain (qualia). The real question is: Where is the complexity/similarity treshold?
- monort 7y agoThey obviously can't feel pain. Imagine you simulate that robot with a turing-complete cellular automaton on paper. At what moment in time will it feel pain as in qualia? When you scribe the next tick on a paper?