[ExI] Fwd: Is Artificial Life Conscious?

[Jason Resch]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:54 PM Colin Hales via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:02 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> ### I would be very surprised if the functional capabilities of brains
>> turned out to be impossible to replicate in digital, Turing-equivalent
>> computers.
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>> Rafal
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> Wouldn't it be great to actually do some empirical science to find out?
> Like start acting as if it was true (impossible) and start building
> artificial inorganic brain  tissue that is NOT a general-purpose computer
> (that artificial tissue would also have functionally relevant EEG and MEG),
> and then comparing its behaviour with the general-purpose computer's model
> of of the same tissue?
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It looks like this work is in the process of being done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldXEuUVkDuw

Jason
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