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> There should be no debate over sentient software I honestly don't know if you are implying its obvious software _can't_ be sentient, or its obvious software
by doctoboggan 3y ago
> There should be no debate over sentient software
I honestly don't know if you are implying its obvious software _can't_ be sentient, or its obvious software _can_ be sentient. The fact that I can't tell which you mean proves that there is and should continue to be a debate over sentient machines.
- yreg 3y agoAnd also the topic itself is hardly new. It has been around at least since Descartes, maybe longer. The solution is anything but obvious. The closely related hard problem of consciousness is not called hard for nothing.
- visarga 3y agoyeah it's called hard to introduce backdoor dualism in modern philosophy "hard" is the new way of saying "beyond physical", the new transcendent plane
- yreg 3y agoDavid Chalmers coined the terms "hard problem" and "easy problems" in a 1994 talk at The Science of Consciousness conference held in Tucson, Arizona: > There is not just one problem of consciousness. “Consciousness” is an ambiguous term, referring to many different phenomena. Each of these phenomena needs to be explained, but some are easier to explain than others. At the start, it is useful to divide the associated problems of consciousness into “hard” and “easy” problems.