RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience?
November 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2012 at 2:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 29, 2012 at 1:55 pm)apophenia Wrote: Nonetheless, consciousness, in my view, is a result of specific processes and their supporting processes, and that without them, or something functionally equivalent, you will not have a machine possessed of consciousness and sentience, just an intelligent machine. Consciousness and sentience are special in that they are distinct, identifiable kinds, but they are not special in that they require a specific hardware host, or even an exactly equivalent program.
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What do you imagine might be a barrier to a functionally equivalent process in the case of a machine (if you think there may be one, of course)? I know we don't know, but AI is the realm of imagining anyway, so, take a stab? Or, if you prefer, how might we call something intelligent (and is it a special use of the word in those cases) without reference to consciousness or sentience? Similarly, what sort of examples might we be looking at with regards to something that is both conscious and sentient (or either, individually) but not intelligent? Just how easily can any of these terms cut the cord, so-to-speak, from each other?
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