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If you have a function that you call, that returns a value, do you not think we know enough to understand that it's not "conscious" when it's not called, and no
by majormajor 3y ago
If you have a function that you call, that returns a value, do you not think we know enough to understand that it's not "conscious" when it's not called, and not executing, and the hardware is sitting idle?
EDIT: we understand enough to know that today, "runaway GPT" is not a major concern compared to, say, a war between nuclear-armed world powers.
- SpicyLemonZest 3y agoI don't think we know enough to understand if "consciousness" can be sliced and diced in the way you're describing. Are you conscious while your neurotransmitters cross their respective synaptic gaps, or only when they arrive at the receptors? I don't know how we'd begin to evaluate the question.