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World's first robot citizen an atheist?
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 (January 17, 2018 at 4:08 pm)SaStrike Wrote: Her face and hair is not covered. Infidel? She doesn't even have hair. Therefore there is no hair to show. Maybe that's why it's okay. The bugle sounds as the charge begins
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  (January 17, 2018 at 9:40 pm)emjay Wrote: The way I look at is that superstitious thinking, or the instinctive tendency towards it, is a natural and unavoidable consequence of the way neural networks, and thus the brain, works. Precisely. B F Skinner pretty much established that in the 40s.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (January 18, 2018 at 9:29 am)Cyberman Wrote:(January 17, 2018 at 9:40 pm)emjay Wrote: The way I look at is that superstitious thinking, or the instinctive tendency towards it, is a natural and unavoidable consequence of the way neural networks, and thus the brain, works. Wow, I didn't know that. I don't know much about B. F. Skinner besides associating him... rather negatively I must admit... with radical behaviourism. But from looking at the Wiki, his experiments with 'Superstition in the pigeon' appear to be describing pretty much exactly what I was talking about but from an experimental, behavioural point of view.  (January 14, 2018 at 11:13 pm)Luckie Wrote:(January 14, 2018 at 5:59 pm)SaStrike Wrote: Why's your username pink? Whatever else is going on, the robots are certainly getting close to passing the Turing test. If not already passed. RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 18, 2018 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2018 at 1:10 pm by emjay.)
 RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 18, 2018 at 3:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2018 at 3:33 pm by uncool.)
So this leads to the question: Is the Turing test enough to determine intelligence or consciousness? if not, what should replace it?
RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 18, 2018 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2018 at 4:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think it is. Consider the statement: a turing test might not actually show that something is "that which possesses x"...simply that it is indistinguishable from "that which possesses x". When two things are maningfully indistinguishable from each other...we generally conclude that they're the same sort of thing.
People sometimes say, "well whatabout a clever trick...like, we know it's a clever trick?" - Indeed.
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Robots are atheists.
Drones are religious. 
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