On 3 May 2017 8:11 p.m., "Brent Meeker" <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
On 5/3/2017 6:21 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > Brent argues that AI will dissolve the hard question. I think that > people know intuitively that it will not. This is what pop-culture > works such as "Blade Runner" are about. > People knew intuitively that the Earth was flat, God was needed to explain morality, and chemistry couldn't explain life. Ask yourself this: You're designing a new Mars Rovers to explore Mars for years and you want them to be able to learn and act intelligently and to interact with one another. Do you deliberately make it conscious?...if so, how? Might you make it conscious inadvertently?...and what difference would it make? Having formulated these questions, do you think modal logic will answer them? IMO the problem is already in the formulation. The way you've set it up obviously leads to a conflation of consciousness and intelligent behaviour. But in my view the thing is incoherent unless expressed in a way that is able to handle the first person view directly in something like its own terms. And yes, modal logic may be able to give us at least an inkling of how this might go, at least in its most basic form. But you don't like where this idea leads it would seem, although perhaps you will just say the case hasn't been made. Maybe I'm wrong, but even so I can't help feeling that you're just out of sympathy with the whole idea. David Brent -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
