RE: Philosophical zombies
March 4, 2018 at 12:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2018 at 12:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 3, 2018 at 9:54 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Yeah, robots can mimic consciousness, but AI is not the subject of the p-zombie thought experiment. Am I missing something here?
In a roundabout way, it is. This is due to the fact that it isolates consciousness as an unquantifiable and posits that even though an entity might seem to all the world as though it were a conscious entity, it might be "just programming". No ai will ever be anything more than "just programming"...ofc, we're "just programming" too. Apparently, "just programming" can do a hell of alot.
Like the p-zombie contention, the underlying explanation is a subtle cognitive trap.
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