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You are a machine. Computers are machines. Theres nothing stopping us building machines like us other than knowledge & time. You can build machines like us, b
by UK-AL 4y ago
You are a machine. Computers are machines.
Theres nothing stopping us building machines like us other than knowledge & time.
You can build machines like us, because we ourselves are the proof. But the resulting machine might not look anything like modern computers.
- snickerbockers 4y ago[Citation needed]
- UK-Al05 4y agoIf you state what you disagree with, people might understand where people differ better. Do you disagree with the idea that with knowledge and time humans have the potential create any material thing? If that's a reasonable thing to assume. Then we could simply just build a human from scratch.
- waserwill 4y agoIf I had to guess: "You are a machine." It's reminiscent of Victorian authors describing the heart as pistons or the brain as strings being pulled. Less of a fact and more of a metaphor, a poetic interpretation. Then, add on the entirely subjective experience each of us has of consciousness: it's not obvious that subjectivity is created or come from machines. Each of us has one good example, and the rest is intuition, induction. At best, "You can build machines like us, because we ourselves are the proof," is a wishful project, rather than a proof.
- UK-Al05 4y agoI think your definition of a machine is limited to simple mechanical devices. Machines are just physical systems that perform some work. This includes cells, biological systems etc If we built a human from scratch at atom level detail then it would be reasonable assume it would experience the world as we would. By definition you would have created consciousness.
- waserwill 4y agoThe issue isn't with machines, but humans as just machines. You rightly point to the assumption: "If we built a human from scratch at atom level detail then it would be reasonable assume it would experience the world as we would." What's the reason the clone has to have experience? I'm not sure whether this clone would or not, but we don't have a good basis for either. If we built one, we should act like it does experience things, but that's on moral, not scientific grounds.
- int_19h 4y agoWe do treat other people as having experiences; why should a clone suddenly be excluded?
- snickerbockers 4y agoI primarily disagree with "You are a machine. Computers are machines.", but the other points are all based on "You are a machine. Computers are machines." being a true statement so really i disagree with everything. That human beings are machines is something that needs to be proven, it can't simply be taken for granted.
- int_19h 4y agoWhat's your definition of "machine"?
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