[ExI] ChatGPT the Professor of Understanding

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 01/05/2023 04:37, Jason Resch asked:
> Given their conflicting answers, how about we agree for a time (at 
> least in this thread) to only use rational thought and argument 
> (rather than appealing to the authority of some humans or some 
> language models)?
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> What then is your rational argument for why brains can have true 
> understanding and consciousness but no digital computer ever could?

Oh!, oh!, Me!, Me! I know this!:
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"Because".

Did I get it right?

I mean, it's obvious, innit? computers have just got numbers and 
electrons and logic gates and all that, you know, machiney stuff. Not 
alive. Mechanical.

But humans have got , er, magic? OK, that's not a good answer, is it? 
Squishy stuff, that's /alive!/ (yeah, it's magic really)

Ben
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