RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
June 7, 2015 at 8:23 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 8:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that this is a grossly naive and hopeful expectation both of the computer, and people. 
The notion that people would abandon or be disappointed by their ideas of the uniqueness of consciousness or mind, that AI would not be a seperate category, ignores that people already make those arguments. That even if we achieved AI (and assuming this was a way to do it) they would still just be machines in motion..which is different, somehow, than our own minds or consciousness. Similarly, the idea that a computer would demonstrate mind with such an algorithm is strange on it;s face. Presuming that ants do it this way, we do not see the colony as having mind, and so if the computer did it that way..we would think what? Presuming that the algorithm we use -is human- than the machine is just "pretending". On and on it goes.
The notion that people would abandon or be disappointed by their ideas of the uniqueness of consciousness or mind, that AI would not be a seperate category, ignores that people already make those arguments. That even if we achieved AI (and assuming this was a way to do it) they would still just be machines in motion..which is different, somehow, than our own minds or consciousness. Similarly, the idea that a computer would demonstrate mind with such an algorithm is strange on it;s face. Presuming that ants do it this way, we do not see the colony as having mind, and so if the computer did it that way..we would think what? Presuming that the algorithm we use -is human- than the machine is just "pretending". On and on it goes.
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