On 12/30/2016 2:52 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
On 28 Dec 2016, at 6:17 pm, Brent Meeker <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
A better solution to overpopulation than nuclear war.
Brent
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