Of course there are no atoms. The point is that the robot follows the same behavior as the appearances of "atoms" in our consciousness. In other words, if you know the behavior of atoms (even though they are nothing more than appearances in consciousness), you know the behavior of the robot. There is no free will there, no act, no purpose, etc. But in the case of consciousnesses, the "atoms" in the "brain" are not enough to predict the behavior of a conscious being, because the "atoms" in the "brain" receive top-down influence in levels from the intentions of consciousnesses. Consciousnesses really have free will, really act, really have purposes. This has nothing to do with "scholastic philosophy". This is just rational thinking. If you you use your rationality you realize these things. If not, you start to believe in fantasies in which robots have souls.
On Thursday, 18 April 2019 23:54:04 UTC+3, Brent wrote: > > > > On 4/18/2019 3:34 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: > > The only downside being that... the robot does not exist. People are > tricking themselves too easily into personifying objects. There is no robot > there, there are just a bunch of atoms > > > I thought you didn't believe in atoms. I look forward to your > construction of atoms from consciousness of...what? atoms? > > 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 [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.
