2015-10-27 15:39 GMT+01:00 John Clark <[email protected]>: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:05 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> So what do you think would happen if an AI, or uploaded mind were >> uploaded into a virtual reality that was fully disconnected from the >> physical world? Would that mind no longer be conscious? >> > > If it is *FULLY* > disconnected from the physical world > then what sort of computer is the AI running on, and what is generating > the virtual reality environment? > > > If no sensor of the real world write anything at all in the memory available to the AI program... then how on earth does the fact it runs on a physical computer matter ? The AI has no way to have access to that world...
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