(October 28, 2012 at 4:43 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: What I mean by it, if there is any "feeler" to anything or have any perception to whatever low level, than it's concscious. But what I don't mean by it, is like a computer receiving information but has no living perceiver.
What if a supercomputer were so complex that it was indistinguishable from a human? What if it could feel (physically...okay, assuming said computer was the brain to a humanoid robot) and could display complex emotions? What if it was, in fact, as complex as a human brain. Would it be conscious? What if it was an organic supercomputer genetically engineered to be the same as the non-organic one, what would the difference be? At what point (if ever) could a machine be recognized as having genuine emotions? I have thought about this at times, but I'm not sure what the answer would be.
