RE: Do computers have consciousness?
December 23, 2013 at 8:16 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2013 at 8:21 pm by Whateverist.)
(December 23, 2013 at 1:43 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I gotta say a big HELL NO to much of what you wrote to be honest.
Computers have no consciousness like human brains.
Check this out: http://scienceblogs.com/developingintell...like-a-co/
And this: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curios...puters.htm
The way I see it computers are simply doing the tasks we have told them to do. They process information in a way in which we have designed them to. They do not 'think' like you suggest. ALL of their actions are performed via algorithms and commands that we have gave them in the first place. Until a computer system is able to start programming itself, and able to make its own decisions that are influenced by factors not distinguished by the programmer, then they don't really have any consciousness. They simply don't think for themselves.
The human mind is far more complex than any machine we have ever made. As good as computing is, it's still just a series of 0's and 1's.
I don't know. Every fucking time I get on an elevator and push a button the damned thing goes to the right floor. If it weren't conscious of which button I'd pushed, how could it do that? Freaky smart they are.
But seriously, machines and programs do all kinds of tasks our brains can do. Disney even programed robot birds to act as if they are real. If they could fool an observer, then they must have bird consciousness, right?
You can program a machine to respond wittily so as to make an observer think it is being witty. You can program it to say things about caring if it survives and so on and so forth. But in the end, what would it take to program a computer so that it actually gave any amount of fuck about anything whatsoever. I don't think so.
