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You’re throwing a lot of assumptions in there that I would be quite careful about holding “firmly.” I’m not convinced we have any idea whether long term memory
by chronofar 4y ago
You’re throwing a lot of assumptions in there that I would be quite careful about holding “firmly.” I’m not convinced we have any idea whether long term memory is required for sentience, I’d suspect not (are amnesiacs not sentient?), nor that we can reliably infer sentience from behavior (again Chinese Room experiment). It’s possible, but this is too nascent to hold such opinions firmly.
- selfmodruntime 4y agoLong term memory is not a requirement for sentience necessarily, but it makes testing for it easier.
- chronofar 4y agoOnly if you presume systems that display one must display the other, which I think is far from a given in systems that aren't comprised of neurons, or in other words systems that don't look/work like us (which is the only pathway we have to believing the two are linked in any way).