[ExI] People often think their chatbot is alive

Jason Resch jasonresch at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 13:49:46 UTC 2022


I find it strange that you reject p-zombies but also reject the idea of
conscious computer brain simulations.

Wouldn't these computer brain simulations which you would hold to lack
consciousness be the p-zombies that you reject as logically impossible?

Jason


On Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 5:39 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 14/07/2022 09:23, Giovanni Santostasi wrote:
> > The entire topic of p-zombie is a bit of nonsense.
>
> Of course.
>
> One of the problems with language is that it's quite possible to make up
> combinations of words that are literally meaningless or
> self-contradictory. It's just that some, on the surface, seem to be
> reasonable and meaningful, until you dig down a bit and actually think
> about them.
>
> Ben
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