RE: Do computers have consciousness?
December 23, 2013 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2013 at 2:21 pm by Napoléon.)
(December 23, 2013 at 1:50 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Replace "computer" with "human" and "programmer" with "natural selection" and I don't see a fundamental difference.
The fundamental difference is, we tell the computer what to do. The programmer is in control. With natural selection, real life/consciousness, can learn, make decisions, draw on past experiences and process unexpected new ones in a way that computers simply can't at this point in time.
This isn't even mentioning the hardware and software limitations that come with being a machine.
Maybe we will design a computer that thinks in a similar way to a human brain, but right now we don't even understand enough of how our own brains work in order to do so IMO.
