RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 23, 2017 at 10:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2017 at 10:14 pm by ignoramus.)
(May 23, 2017 at 6:40 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Can an AI have a conscious experience?
If yes, then it is possible to encode such a thing in terms of purely physical properties.
If it is possible, what is the difficulty in accepting that Nature has taken such a path?
It certainly beats the alternative of supposing that there are virtually infinite incorporeal consciousnesses out there, just waiting for a host to materialize.... or that they are created at the same time as the host, by some undefined, unknown and unmeasurable method.
Poca, what if an advanced AI can emulate consciousness perfectly without actually experiencing it?
Does that count? How is the experience different from the decisions made if the end result is identical?
The actual experience of consciousness may not be that important?
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
Know God, Know fear.
