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Are dogs and cats debating their equivalence of anthropomorphizing? If anything I would say the opposite. We draw parallels quickly to other organisms and vast
by cscurmudgeon 3y ago
Are dogs and cats debating their equivalence of anthropomorphizing?
If anything I would say the opposite. We draw parallels quickly to other organisms and vastly underestimate the range of human cognition.
- epgui 3y agoI don't mean to suggest that humans have little cognition, what I mean is that something can be intelligent and conscious even if it behaves in a decidedly non-human way. Animals have their own kinds of intelligence, and they are all conscious, albeit with different kinds of higher functions than humans. But all the possible colours and textures of cognition tend to get lost when we reflect about the nature of AI. We tend to boil it down (incorrectly IMO) to some variation of "it's not intelligent/conscious because it doesn't do X the way humans do".