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I certainly hope to never operate independent of my brain and its script! That would be quite worrying. Would the Roomba be conscious if it had a dust sensor?
by FeepingCreature 4y ago
I certainly hope to never operate independent of my brain and its script! That would be quite worrying.
Would the Roomba be conscious if it had a dust sensor? Then it would know that the result cleans the floor.
- jqpabc123 4y agoI certainly hope to never operate independent of my brain and its script! Are you a robot? Speaking strictly for myself, my brain does not follow a script. I normally operate on my own --- like when I formulated this reply to you.
- tux3 4y agoNext, we may expand the length of this thread threefold by asking you to describe free will, and what it would take under the definition of free will you pick (none of which are very satisfying) for a bio system to not have free will, or for a machine to have it
- FeepingCreature 4y agoI am indeed a meat robot. I think this is at risk of becoming a debate over the word "script". Is it a matter of complexity? Is GPT-3 a script? Is Windows a script, even though it has more bytes of behavioral code than the GPT-3 weights? Will the Roomba be conscious if I replace its programming with a neural network, even if it behaves the same way? What if I add code to randomly vary its behavior? What if I add code to learn at runtime, considering that the learning code is still perfectly static?
- jqpabc123 4y agoI am indeed a meat robot. You have my sympathy.