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The fine line is around whether a machine can actually experience conscious perception, such as actually feeling pain, for example. Of course, there's no way t
by blueadept111 7y ago
The fine line is around whether a machine can actually experience conscious perception, such as actually feeling pain, for example. Of course, there's no way to know...
- Rury 7y agoPain is a signal to your brain, which causes you to react to a stimuli. Computers react to electrical inputs, and on some level can be considered reacting to a stimuli. Is a computer therefore conscious?
- blueadept111 7y agoDoes it feel pain? I think not.
- TaupeRanger 7y agoNo. The signal is not the pain. Pain signals are not feelings of pain. Pain happens in the mind.
- Rury 7y agoRight, the mind processes it, and in turn does something, analogous to how computers process signals, and in turn do something.
- blueadept111 7y agoMaybe analogous, maybe not. Analogy is in the eye of the beholder. There's no law of the universe that says that consciousness is equivalent to computation. Maybe consciousness is an emergent property of biological systems, along some dimension currently unknown to us.
- Rury 7y agoWhich is my point. Consciousness and computation are entirely up to what we define these words to mean. At some point we have to settle on a satisfactory definition of consciousness that fully differentiates it from computation, or they’re left with at least some overlapping (analogous) meaning. If we dismiss consciousness as currently unknowable us, and thus undefinable (as your statement about dimensions alludes to), then how can we say assume with certainty, that we haven’t already achieved conscious AI?
- goatlover 7y agoPain is an experience, not a physiological description. When you stub your toe, you feel pain, not a description of the biological mechanism.