RE: We are no different than computers
April 23, 2015 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 12:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 23, 2015 at 12:17 pm)Exian Wrote: But when a human (and some monkeys) lies, they employ theory of mind, empathy, creativity, and a desire gain a benefit. A computer will lie when it's told.-and so will a human being.
Those are all relevant topics, to mind...but they are all additional to mind..and as I;ve mentioned before, if we just keep adding modifiers until the only thing left that fits the bill are human beings..we will have proven only that a computer is not a human being. To which I say "no shit".....but we're talking mind,eh?
Comp mind, to reiterate, postulates as to -how- a mind is actually doing all of that empathy and creativity business. How it;s comparing gain to loss. A method, a manner in which it can be done. It doesn't propose that machines and human beings will have the same goals or value judgments. It doesn't propose that a "machine mind" would be a human mind. It proposes that both machines and human mind leverage similar principles to similar effects. It gives us an idea as to how a memory or concept is/could be made, not what associations we assign to it (as with lying above).
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