(March 17, 2022 at 1:59 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: My machine examples are minimally self aware, but it's certainly true that human beings aren't maximally self aware. We have limited consciously apprehended data about the operation of our brains. Much of what we do possess appears to be mistaken, either coincidentally or for effect. There is a long (and terrifying, when you really think about it) list of ways that the whole thing can fail or malfunction. A horse designed by committee.
Not designed.
A horse made by encouraging pork, mutton, beef and venison to mutate and attach themselves to each other, and then zapped with electricity.