RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 16, 2014 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2014 at 10:49 am by Mudhammam.)
(May 16, 2014 at 9:30 am)bennyboy Wrote:(May 16, 2014 at 8:40 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: When Siri version 2050 arrives with actual subjective awareness, will the monism/dualism debate be over?
The debate is, and always will be, whether Siri actually will have subjective awareness, or just seem to. Do androids dream of electric sheep?
"Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves." - Xenophanes.
Presumably, yes, they will dream of and in automation, similar to their ancestral cousins, man.