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Why do you think that? The only known case of human-like awareness ever arising occurred naturally as (presumably) an emergent phenomenon of an intelligent sys
by jstanley 6y ago
Why do you think that?
The only known case of human-like awareness ever arising occurred naturally as (presumably) an emergent phenomenon of an intelligent system.
- ethbr0 6y agoBecause if it happens soon, it will probably not be because someone spent 3.4 billion years tinkering on it.
- tim333 6y agoI guess I have a different belief about human-like awareness. I think it's been kind of designed by evolution for functional reasons. It's been built out of networks of neurons arranged in elaborate ways and we've done a reasonable job of providing function equivalence to real neurons using artificial neural networks in the simpler bits of the brain that we kind of understand like the retina. I think as time goes by researchers will plug artificial neural networks together in a human like manner and get something closer to human awareness. If you think about some of the odder aspects of qualia - how the experience of the colour red is different from green for example, quite a lot comes from red being hooked up to the fainting mechanism - drop the blood pressure at the sight of blood to stop it gushing out - and similar - sexual stuff, anger etc. Basically wired up by evolution for functional reasons.