Here is a robot that looks and acts like you. Here is a gun. Will you shoot yourself now to complete the upload, or will you refuse a procedure that will make you immortal?
It's a hard question because animals that don't want to die produce more offspring. One of the ways that evolution accomplishes that is by continuous positive reinforcement of thinking, perception, and action. This motivates you to preserve them by not dying. It also motivates the belief in consciousness, qualia, and free will, respectively. The fact that you can't objectively test for any of these or even define them coherently should tell you that they are illusions. Their only relevance to AGI is that your robot has to believe in them too. Consciousness = what computation feels like. Qualia = what input feels like. Free will = what output feels like. Feelings = reinforcement signals. On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 5:18 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, March 08, 2021, at 4:29 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > These are only different if you believe in magic. A robot that looks and > acts like you is you as far as anyone (including you) can tell. > > > One can be destructive (uploading) and the other non-destructive > (copying). Then they are different. Think of electrons and holes. The > holes collapse after upload... maybe. Copy is just a dupe, not you. Or a > quantum upload that collapses the original destructively when he observes > the original. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta5ed5d0d0e4de96d-Ma0392fad710cf00a1f617d21> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta5ed5d0d0e4de96d-Md630325f818835bb31863d30 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
