On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:52 PM Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I attended a presentation the other day of a psychologist who is > investigating the sort of relationships that people develop with voice > assistants such as Alexa. She told the story of a woman who admits to being > emotionally attached to her Alexa. She says that she is not crazy or > deluded. This woman is an engineer and she has a pretty good grasp of what > Alexa is, and how it works in general. And yet, the emotional attachment > still kicks in. So I guess, according to your idea, we should start > searching Alexa for an initial model of consciousness? > I have an emotional attachment to my art collection. Should I start searching prints by George Baldessin and Lionel Lindsay for an initial model of consciousness? Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSrPp%3D%3DhhLE_ofvm64_FLKZ70%3D79zyLA3wKvrrKNxGVww%40mail.gmail.com.
