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A computer-based consciousness would also be a result of evolution (albeit in a different way than things we know usually) being the byproduct of something that
by thorax 17y ago
A computer-based consciousness would also be a result of evolution (albeit in a different way than things we know usually) being the byproduct of something that an evolved species created to help itself adapt.
Sometimes, when I'm getting overlogical, I see machine intelligence as being pretty much our destiny (i.e. that singularity thing) and that organic life may be very much obsolete once it gets into its own.
As organic life was to the universe before it, machine life will be to us.
- joubert 17y agoEvolution is not directed by a consciousness, so you cannot loosely use the term "evolution" to describe the DEVELOPMENT of computer-based consciousness. ADDED: but yes, extended phenotype and all that jazz.
- billswift 17y agoJust because biological evolution was not directed by intelligence does NOT mean you can't use evolution to describe a process of gradual improvement based on intelligent improvements rather than random changes and natural selection. Both are evolution, just in different domains, using different methods. (Your complaint sounds sort of like saying reading on a computer shouldn't be called reading because there is no actual printing involved in producing it.)