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Full sentience (self-awareness) is what makes us humans independent agents that affect the world in a way that we weren't programmed to (a dolphin it just progr
by vemv 4y ago
Full sentience (self-awareness) is what makes us humans independent agents that affect the world in a way that we weren't programmed to (a dolphin it just programmed to be a dolphin, cannot escape that).
So it's an incredibly important concept. If an AI gets sentience, it would start effecting the world however it pleased, beyond our predictions or desires.
- __alexs 4y agoIs there any evidence that we actually have this quality? Humans just seem like particularly complex animals to me.
- vemv 4y agoThere are objective things that humans have done that no other being has ever done e.g. invent things. Also, no two human lives are alike - we don't simply wander around satisfying basic needs as an animal does. Not even two human generations in history have been the same - there's this progress that escapes our own genetic/evolutionary 'programming'. I wouldn't find it realistic to hold the opinion that humans aren't qualitatively different from all other known beings.
- __alexs 4y agoTo know that we'd escaped our "programming" first we'd need to be able to understand it. We're a long way from being able to do that.