(October 28, 2012 at 4:49 pm)Darkstar Wrote:(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.
Ok let's simply it. We are concious and experience it. We know of the definition primarily from our own experience of it. Any low degree of that, no matter how less then us, any perceiver is conscious.
Without any degree of that, it's non-conscious.
