On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 5:25 PM Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Which was? 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/CAFxXSLRx1CNe7AZ0Uay82K1HJT7ABb4NVa%3Dj6YocCppOqH6YoA%40mail.gmail.com.
