(November 4, 2016 at 6:27 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 5:53 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: No this isn't comparable to a piece of technology... this is more comparable to a superintelligent mind. I mean, that's the relevant part. Who cares what it is made out of or if it is conscious or not.
A mind always has to be embodied. How it is embodied determines how it interacts with its environment and what it can learn from it.
Computers are bodies. How is biology relevant? Machines may even be able to become conscious. There's nothing magical about DNA.
Quote:Otherwise it's like having a computer with no internet connection or keyboard, or CD drive and just expecting it to get more intelligent by itself.
Not really I don't see how that's relevant at all. A stationary body is still a body. A computer is already a body, it's just not biological or in motion.
