RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 23, 2018 at 6:00 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2018 at 6:12 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 23, 2018 at 4:46 am)bennyboy Wrote: Is AI consciousness? I wouldn't say so, or at least I have no reason to believe so. I define consciousness as the awareness of being, not as information processing.
Psychology and neuroscience are great, but they provide a study in correlation: this or that brain part or process is connected to reports of this or that experience, for example. What it doesn't do is to allow us to know whether an arbitrary non-organic-brain-based system experiences qualia.
And using your method you'll never define what qualia is, what it isn't, how to recognise it or whether it even exists. Do you honestly believe that just by reasoning about these things without performing studies and experiments that you and your ilk will ever make any progress to the point where the majority will largely agree?
Honestly?
No. It will never happen.
(March 23, 2018 at 4:10 am)bennyboy Wrote: If you use only science as a tool for investigating reality, then you'll eventually come to the conclusion that all reality consists of an objective physical existence and nothing more than that.
Because we can only investigate what we can observe and test. You seem to be implying the existence of the supernatural, which is by definition, meamingless. Because if it existed, it would be part of nature. And there's no point reasoning about something that we know nothing about, cannot sense or measure or even whether it exists otherwise you just end up exploring fantasies and doesn't provide any new knowledge.
