On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, at 07:08, Bruce Kellett wrote: > 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?
So you agree with my point? Telmo. > > 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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSrPp%3D%3DhhLE_ofvm64_FLKZ70%3D79zyLA3wKvrrKNxGVww%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/2f276826-b547-4326-bbaf-db55a4f71abc%40www.fastmail.com.
