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"whether a simulation is consciousness or merely behaves like consciousness." Crucial point. Have you read Peter Watt's Blindsight? I can't recommend it enough
by civilian 13y ago
"whether a simulation is consciousness or merely behaves like consciousness." Crucial point. Have you read Peter Watt's Blindsight? I can't recommend it enough. http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm (it's also available in a pay-money format)
There's also the whole idea of whether humans are consciousness or merely behave like consciousness. There's the idea that the sentient "you" is just a narrator for the decisions that your brain makes. This is one example of that: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.751.html http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.751.ht...
- Aqueous 13y ago'There's also the whole idea of whether humans are consciousness or merely behave like consciousness.' Well this would be the counterargument. We behave ethically towards humans. Yet we have no conclusive evidence that other human beings are conscious. So is that a good enough reason to treat conscious-behaving computers ethically? Thanks for the links.
- wellboy 13y agoMy take on this. As long as mankind has existed that things are the way they are, because of some magical thing and thousands of times, over and over again, it just wasn't magical, it could be explained through experiments and logical conclusion. The same will happen for human consciousness. Does it sound more plausible that the human mind is conscious, because of billions of brain cells with trillions of connections or because of some magical thing? The human mind is just an incredibly sophisticated machine and as soon as we can rebuild that, we will have an equally conscious computer.