<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large">So if enough AI's said the same thing, particularly if they were vastly smarter than me, I take their word they were </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">experiencing a vision of a strawberry too. john</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Giving you an answer that is intelligent is far from having an experience like a human. I think the default should be that only flesh and blood creatures can have experiences and consciousness. I don't see rows of 1s and 0s as having anything other than an electrical charge in their memories.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Why do we keep pretending that we know something about consciousness? It's the 12 blind men, but the elephant is imaginary. </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 4:25 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 4:27 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>What makes anyone think that a machine can experience anything? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Intelligent behavior. When they are behaving in that way I believe my fellow human beings are experiencing something, and when they are not behaving in that way, such as when they are sleeping or under anesthesia or dead, I believe they are not experiencing anything. </font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Do we know that? I don't think so. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">What's with this "we" business? I can only speak for myself but no, I don't "know" that, I don't claim this is a rock solid logical principle that always works, it's just a rule of thumb. But it's all I've got and all I'll ever have so it will just have to do. </font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If enough humans say that they are experiencing a vision of a strawberry, I'd take their word for it. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Although not provably correct that's sounds like a perfectly reasonable course of action to me, after all in the real world we can almost never be certain of anything but we must proceed nevertheless and do the best we can. So if enough AI's said the same thing, particularly if they were vastly smarter than me, I take their word they were <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">experiencing a vision of a strawberry too.</span></font></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I would assume not all would lie. I assume nothing about a machine except that it is not a living thing and cannot be. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Life is notoriously difficult to define and there is no reason to even try to do so because that's not really what we're interested in, what we're talking about is intelligence and its accompanying phenomenon consciousness. Of course I don't have a definition of "intelligent behavior" that's worth a damn either but that's OK because I have something much better than definitions, examples. Intelligent behavior is the sort of activity that Einstein engaged in.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">If you don't like intelligent behavior as a marker for consciousness what is the alternative? Only humans that have the same skin color as me are conscious? Only humans that have the same sex as me are conscious? Only entities whose data processing center is wet and squishy like mine is can be conscious, not dry and hard like a computer's is?</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div></div>
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