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I see an interesting corollary to this: If an AI can become conscious, it follows that consciousness does not contain (or at least require) free will. Of cour

by air7 6y ago

I see an interesting corollary to this: If an AI can become conscious, it follows that consciousness does not contain (or at least require) free will. Of course I can't define what "free will" is exactly, but I can make a claim about what it is not: A computer running code, no matter how complex the code is, does not have "free will" in the same sense as I feel I have. This is a delightful conundrum: If a computer can simulate me, than I don't have any more "free will" than it does. And if it can't even in theory, than why not? What's uncomputeable about the atoms that create me?

seph-reed 6y ago
> What's uncomputeable about the atoms that create me? * There's a lot of them * Universal time appears to be continuous The three body problem is a great example of just how impossible a true simulation of our universe would be. We can't even get 3 atoms orbiting around each-other.