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Absolutely. This quote from Westworld articulates is nicely too: "The self is a kind of fiction, for hosts and humans alike. It's a story we tell ourselves. [.
by burke 6y ago
Absolutely. This quote from Westworld articulates is nicely too:
"The self is a kind of fiction, for hosts and humans alike. It's a story we tell ourselves. [...] There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next. No, my friend, you're not missing anything at all."
- goatlover 6y agoOnly if you think replacing talk of subjective experiences like color, sound, pain, etc. with talk of loops and inflection points in the context of androids makes the hard problem go away. I could quote Morpheus rhetorically asking Neo what reality is and then answering with, "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." Which doesn't settle any philosophical discussion on the nature of reality or perception, or render those discussions moot.