On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 2:27 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 4/26/2021 11:11 PM, Terren Suydam wrote: > > > Sure - although it seems possible that there could be intelligences that > are not conscious. We're pretty biased to think of intelligence as we have > it - situated in a meat body, and driven by evolutionary programming in a > social context. There may be forms of intelligence so alien we could never > conceive of them, and there's no guarantee about consciousness. > > > I don't see how an entity could be really intelligent without being able > to consider its actions by a kind of internal simulation. > Neither do I, but it may be a failure of imagination. The book Blindsight by Peter Watts explores this idea. > > Take corporations. A corporation is its own entity and it acts > intelligently in the service of its own interests. They can certainly be > said to "prospectively consider scenarios in which they are actors in which > the scenario is informed by past experience". Is a corporation conscious? > > > I think so. And the Supreme Court agrees. :-) > How about cities? Countries? Religions? Each of which can be said to "prospectively consider scenarios..." Terren > > Brent > > -- > 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/adcec69e-5c78-f355-9d35-a503d8d12d5f%40verizon.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/adcec69e-5c78-f355-9d35-a503d8d12d5f%40verizon.net?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/CAMy3ZA8%2BpwJe448JksJQCWnRFp5_S6Z8%3DQV5HHesfiMOtiChZQ%40mail.gmail.com.
