... one categorization over another and keeping only that perspective is there?" I agree. I always try to see things from different perspectives, just to make...
... What would happen if the computer became sufficiently complex that it wrote its own programs? I'm not sure at what point a computer might become sentient...
Greetings, I have an everyday incident to share with the forum. Recently I was serving in a community group project. It was located near a betting shop. There...
... contingent aspects, working together, provide the non-contingent basis that the CA derives from modal logic, but its internal parts are not non-contingent...
... I think the fact that humans created computers may have been a distraction from the point of my question. Let me try this: what are your thoughts of the...
Thanks for this Paul - I think it would be great for us to share more real life experiences like this on the list, so it's not all so theoretical all the time....
... sufficiently complex that it wrote its own programs? I'm not sure at what point a computer might become sentient (and better minds than mine have spilt...
... Part of the problem is that 'sentient' is usually used in such a way as to mix two completely different things: 1) The issue of whether a thing has mental...
... input from environment running through it's instrumentation to produce output behavior)" Naturally mechanistic. A mind that has not (yet) evolved...
... input from environment running through it's instrumentation to produce output behavior)" Naturally mechanistic. A mind that has not (yet) evolved...
Why would it be virtually impossible for a machine to have introspectable mental states? ... __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search...
... I repeat my original thoughts on this, with the portion you've just noted above addressed in all caps this time (but I hope you'll re-read this entire ...
I think sentience when used in the context to separate humans from other animals would be the ability of a consciousness to think abstractly and imaginatively....
As I was thinking recently the following argument came to me. 1.Sentience is a natural outcome of reality and is thus natural to reality. 2.Technology,...
I really hate it when people say things are unnatural and therefore bad, like genetic engineering or homosexuality (the latter of which is in fact in their...
... portion you've just noted above addressed in all caps this time" My err. I had forgotten that not, and with which I generally agree. Apologies that I...
... natural things existing is really just artificial as "artificial" things come out simply a logical extension of reality." I understand and agree with this...
... Ah, that's an excellent point and very true. I may have a solution for us. I believe the Stoics considered their philosophy in three fields: physics, ...
The link between nature and goodness makes sense within a teleological framework, which was so egregiously misused in the late medieval period that it fell...
A better statement would be to say that we have no reason to believe that they can't achieve sentience. My opinion: Premise 1: Humans are sentient Premise 2:...
I basically agree. Although I think there is a catch here. Sentience involves introspection which is a different type of thing than a clock or computer...
Even the computers we have now could be used for a simulation of the entire human body, predicting what would happen in a real one with 100% accuracy. This...
As far as computer capacity that may be true. But we also need to know a lot more about how neurons work and operate to create a truely accurate simulation. I...
That's my point. ANY physical process, except possibly quantum-mechanical processes, can be simulated with perfect accuracy because the outcome is ALWAYS...
Well this is usually true, except computers can not properly simulate quantum uncertainty. Now according to Roger Penrose consciousness derives from quantum...
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