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The body is the mind's interface with the world. Why couldn't a digital mind "feel sensations", subjective as they are, on its own interface with it? If it's as
by arde 1mo ago
The body is the mind's interface with the world. Why couldn't a digital mind "feel sensations", subjective as they are, on its own interface with it? If it's assumed to not be a subject, then how could it be a mind at all?
- goatlover 1mo agoI didn't say AIs couldn't be conscious, only that mimicking behavior (or speech) is not a way to become conscious.
- arde 1mo agoI'm sorry, then what was that "more scientific" reason you gave for?
- goatlover 1mo agoLack of sensory organs due to lack of a body. A sophisticated enough robot might be able to have conscious experience. That gets into the harder problem that Ned Block laid out where we don't know whether consciousness is biological or functional.