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In many ways 'consciousness' is a human projection onto machines. The whole debate might be, in some sense, irrelevant. Here's 2 scenarios: - Your robot compan
by light_triad 2y ago
In many ways 'consciousness' is a human projection onto machines. The whole debate might be, in some sense, irrelevant. Here's 2 scenarios:
- Your robot companion gets so good at mimicking a human, knows all your preferences and is able to have natural conversations, that over time you forget you are interacting with a robot and start to develop feelings for them.
- A robot swarm interacts with the environment to further its goals and continues to grow long after humans have disappeared from the scene.
In both cases is there consciousness? Does it matter?
- davesque 2y agoThis echoes my feelings on this whole debate. The question of consciousness matters much less than the question of how we decide to treat things that we view as being very much like us.