(May 15, 2015 at 5:46 pm)Chuck Wrote: How do you know the fly had any actual feelings when it behaved this way?Yeah, that's the question, isn't it? But it doesn't have to be applied to just computers or flies. How do you know that another person has any actual feelings?
But if behavior is indication of feeling, what about the behavior of the computer?
In the end, I think we look at behavior and make a leap of faith-- something acts as though it has feelings, and it's an organic DNA-based lifeform like me, so I believe it probably has some kind of feelings.
With computers, I'm really not so sure. If I could transfer my entire brain function to a quantum computer, would it "live"?
