RE: Philosophical zombies
March 3, 2018 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2018 at 10:18 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(March 3, 2018 at 8:03 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 3, 2018 at 5:34 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: If a Being is capable of clearly, verbally communicating that it is aware of itself, doesn’t it follow that it is self-aware?
Absolutely not, unless you define "self-aware" in those terms.
But the problem is this: I have a particular type of self-awareness that allows me to know what it feels like to watch a sunset or to drink a cup of hot chocolate. I do not believe this to be the same as a robot that can determine the chemical composition of fluids it has taken in and then verbalizing that composition.
Unless, that is, the Universe is panpsychic. Then it's all bets off.
We aren’t talking about robots or machines though. In this hypothetical we’re talking about humans; humans who are biologically identical; indiscernible from any other human walking the earth. I can say with a reasonable degree of certainty that I am able to recognize consciousness in a human being. If that human tells me about the awe he feels when watching a sunset, or how hot cocoa just isn’t the same with out those tiny, smushy marshmallows, because that’s how his mom used to make it, then that person is conscious. Yeah, robots can mimic consciousness, but AI is not the subject of the p-zombie thought experiment. Am I missing something here?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
