I like that movie (which I have seen).
I think synthetic biological components are significantly involved, which makes the difference in making Ava conscious.. @philipthrift On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 4:23:52 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > If you haven't viewed it, please do so. It's about the Turing Test, > science fiction, but the "special effects" aren't primarily photographic > bells and whistles, but the dialogue. the text, the logic of the script. > Recently, we have argued about consciousness, what it is, and how we can > test for it in the context of AI. I claimed that we could do some > superficial surgery to determine whether the subject of the test was a > robot or a conscious entity. But this is completely mistaken. All that that > would reveal is whether the subject was artificial, not whether it was > "conscious". The subject could have been a black box, and still showing > signs of what we can't really define; consciousness. I think Ex Machina > provides an answer of what we need to look for. Please view it and report > back. But do NOT read the plot, say in Wiki. It's a spoiler. AG > > -- 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/bbd10125-a095-4cb8-ac71-d820bc105eb5n%40googlegroups.com.
