On 5/17/2019 4:56 AM, John Clark wrote:
If you somehow knew for a fact a brilliant being was a zombie then you could immediately make one conclusion about it, the being could NOT be the product of Darwinian Evolution because Natural Selection can see intelligence but it can't see consciousness in others any better than we can, and it can't select for something it can't see.
I don't see how that follows. If zombies are possible then evolution could have produced brilliant zombies. It might just be an accident that evolution took the "consciousness" path at some point. It might even vary from species to species...as it might in the future when we develop human-level in AI-robots. I can't imagine how an AI could have human level intelligence without the ability to reflect on itself, but I can imagine this reflection being realized in very different ways. For example, for high reliability in some space vehicles, we have provided three separate computers programmed by different teams to check decisions by majority voting.
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