On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 6:28 pm, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> Only if you never did some serious thinking you can consider AI can be > conscious. Is not at all the same thing like other similar statements > across history like "objects heavier than air can never fly". In that case > you were only dealing with arrangements of atoms. But in the case of > consciousness you are dealing with the nature of reality. And the nature of > reality just is. You don't conjure it up just by arranging atoms, atoms > which don't even exist, being themselves ideas in consciousness. Is like > you are given a picture of a dead person and you try to revive that person > by painting the picture pixel by pixel. You will not revive anything. You > will just make a picture. That's all. If you are to make an "artificial > brain" atom by atom, all that you will ever get will be a dead object that > will not do anything. > If we can replace part of the brain with an electronic component and the person continues experiencing normal consciousness, what does this indicate? > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
