> On 28 Dec 2016, at 6:17 pm, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Exactly so. Once we can engineer robots to act with human like intelligence, > questions about consciousness will be seen as either meaningless or "the > wrong question". > >
Yes. This is precisely why we will first notice this effect in the burgeoning sexbot industry. A good simulation is (apparently) quite as good as the “real” thing. With sexbots, humans will embrace somnophilia and the ability to be aroused by a being that “may or may not be conscious” will become a pandemic Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
