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minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down7·8 hours agoPlease don’t write off the possibility of artificial consciousness, just because this isn’t it. Thought is a process which meat can perform.
minus-squareAppleTea@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoI mean, sure consciousness is (probably) a physical process, so like any other process we should be able to replicate it with some sort of machine. …but I really really really doubt that machine is going to be a plain old Turing machine.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoEvery machine is a plain old Turing machine. Even quantum computing is just a shortcut for a subset of hideous obscure proofs. They aren’t doing different math. Special pleading is a fallacy… except when I do it, that’s different.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoStopped what I was doing to watch this again.
minus-squarebountygiver [any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoThen why continue if it’s possible? Unless you are ok with slavery.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 hours agoCan you not imagine the difference between creating new life and enslaving it?
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 hours agoIn a capitalist system? No, I can’t imagine that…
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 hours agoWhat is it, then? And while you’re there, what is non artificial consciousness?
minus-squareTrantaLocked@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·8 hours agoI’ve thought more about the dangers of artificial consciousness than you would expect.
minus-squareCrimeIsLegalNow@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·5 hours agoThat says less than you want it to
Please don’t write off the possibility of artificial consciousness, just because this isn’t it. Thought is a process which meat can perform.
I mean, sure consciousness is (probably) a physical process, so like any other process we should be able to replicate it with some sort of machine.
…but I really really really doubt that machine is going to be a plain old Turing machine.
Every machine is a plain old Turing machine.
Even quantum computing is just a shortcut for a subset of hideous obscure proofs. They aren’t doing different math. Special pleading is a fallacy… except when I do it, that’s different.
The meat does the thinking.
Stopped what I was doing to watch this again.
Then why continue if it’s possible? Unless you are ok with slavery.
Can you not imagine the difference between creating new life and enslaving it?
In a capitalist system? No, I can’t imagine that…
What is it, then? And while you’re there, what is non artificial consciousness?
I’ve thought more about the dangers of artificial consciousness than you would expect.
That says less than you want it to