On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:58 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 7:10:03 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 5/1/2019 4:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> > I would say that one could have a Jupiter planet-sized network of >> > Intel® Core™ processors + whatever distributed program running on it, >> > and it will not be conscious. >> >> Based on what? Human hubris? >> >> Brent >> > > > A racist is [via Google definition] "a person who shows or feels > discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes > that a particular race is superior to another". > > I'm not that, but I do think that different types of matter have different > capabilities (as materials scientists do). > > Are you familiar with the Fading Qualia thought experiment: http://www.consc.net/papers/qualia.html ?
If so I am very interested to know what your conclusions on it are. I.e., what would someone feel/experience/say as their bio neurons are gradually replaced with artificial silicon neurons? Jason -- 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.
