[ExI] People often think their chatbot is alive

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 1:34 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> OK, let me ask you this.  Are you interested in finding out the colorness
> qualities of anything in physics?
>

Physics, or biophysics?  If colorness is a quality of perception, then it
isn't just about physics divorced from the biology of the observer.


> And of course, again, once we discover which of all our descriptions of
> physics in the brain is a description of redness, (it will falsify all the
> crap in the gap theories like substance dualism and functionalism) and
> result in a clear scientific consensus about not only what
> consciousness is, but an understanding of what consciousness is like.
> Along with that will be a near unanimous consensus that abstract systems,
> like the one on the right in the image, would not be considered to be
> conscious by anyone, with any reasonable intelligence.
>

That you are driving toward that conclusion tells me that you are probably
incorrect.  It seems quite possible that such an abstract system could be
conscious in every meaningful way.
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