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How do we know they aren't already?
by suoduandao2 4y ago
How do we know they aren't already?
- meroes 4y agoChinese room thought experiment maybe. It says a human does not learn language purely formally (the man inside the room doesn’t learn/understand Chinese like a natural Chinese speaker does by shuffling formal syntax around), which programs are. So there must be something extra non-formal for consciousness, and the meager electronics of modern computers plainly don’t seem it.
- suoduandao2 4y ago>So there must be something extra non-formal for consciousness, and the meager electronics of modern computers plainly don’t seem it. But the neurons of a brain do? Don't get me wrong, I like the theory that microtubules harness quantum weirdness to do something hard-problem of consciousness adjacent. But I would bet that if we were silicon-based lifeforms experimenting with carbon adding machines we'd say they plainly don't have the stuff for consciousness either. There's just no consensus theory[1] explaining how consciousness arises. [1] though for my part I'd bet Tononi's model of information integration combined with quantum bayesianism and long relaxation times is on the right track.