RE: 3 Questions For Believers (A work in progress.)
June 15, 2014 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2014 at 9:26 pm by Jackalope.)
(June 15, 2014 at 9:18 pm)Irrational Wrote:(June 14, 2014 at 7:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I don't think premise 2 is universally the case, either.
Are you a conscious, sapient being, or are you a convincing illusion of same? Or are you a product of my own mind?
Prove it empirically.
I observe that Rampant.A.I. is an individual who posts and makes responses to others in this forum. Every other individual I observe here (including you) confirms this observation by treating him as if he is an individual in his own right posting in this forum.
Ok, disregarding the extra questions that come with the online nature of the Internet (such as whether or not some poster here or there is actually a bot), I argue that the observation above is empirical evidence. And as such evidence has yet to be falsified, then I have established empirically that Rampant.A.I. is an individual in his own right and not a figment of your imagination.
How does that distinguish him from a sophisticated automaton that emulates consciousness, but does not possess it. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Before you argue that such things do not exist, how would you determine this empirically?
