On 6/13/07, Lukasz Stafiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/13/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If yes, then how do you define pain in a machine?
>
A pain in a machine is the state in the machine that a person
empathizing with the machine would avoid putting the machine into,
other things being equal (that is, when there is no higher goal in
going through the pain).

To clarify:
(1) there exists a person empathizing with that machine
(2) this person would avoid putting the machine into the state of pain

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