[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Gordon]

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:


> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 03:22:50PM -0700, Gordon wrote:

>> I would like sometimes to shoot my stand-alone chess computer. It sometimes
>> seems as if there is a cunning SOB living in that box. I think spike can
>> relate. But I also know it would not be murder. My chess computer is no more
>> conscious than a rock. 

> I guess it's okay if an autonomous drone murders you, then.
> Or is it the operator? Or the maker? Or the developer?

It's the human computer operator in that case. He or she wants me dead. But who/what is operating my chess computer when I want to shoot it dead? I think I am the computer operator, but I suppose the human developers and manufacturers are complicit. My chess computer is no more than a blind unconscious tool that I am using against myself for the sport of it.


-Gordon
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