On Thu, May 21, 2020, 5:25 PM Stanley Nilsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't see how belief in the possibility AI is reason to reject the > "Creator" vision of existence. > Let's not confuse gods with religion. It is perfectly plausible that a godlike computer solves a set of simple physics equations with 10^120 terms to create the universe you observe. Or maybe a smaller computer with a more complex program simulates your mind and all your sensory experiences. There is no experiment you can perform that could prove or disprove either hypothesis. The best you can do is philosophise that if Occam's Razor is true then the former is more likely, and if not true then you can't know anything. You can't test for being in a simulation because no computer can model the computer that models it, because only one can contain all of the information about the other. But we can experimentally test for belief in consciousness, qualia, and free will. The beliefs require no new physics beyond ordinary computation with neurons. Since that is all we can test for, I am satisfied with that explanation. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc32c76a0c85e2ca9-M951718341f7e1035815fbfa1 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
