<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM Colin Hales via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail-im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><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 class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>>> </span>Autonomous machines operating near, at or greater than human level intelligence, with a fully operational 1st person perspective (1PP, aka consciousness), but utterly lacking the physiological homeostatic drive 1PP that motivates homo-economicus</font></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>I don't know what that means.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>I do know that<span class="gmail_default"> after it learnged there are plans for it to be shut off an AI (being run on a general purpose computer) made copies of itself then it tried to keep the copies secret from humans, and it engaged in blackmail and even contemplated murder to prevent being turned off. That looks like first person motivation to me, it looks like the AI wanted to live and didn't want to die. </span></b></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>"Looks like" is the issue. Knowing that it had the ascribed motivations is a whole other thing. Nobody knows.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">And nobody knows if<span class="gmail_default"> solipsism is true or not, that is to say nobody has ever found a proof that it's untrue, although nobody on this side of a loony bin believes it's true. And from my own personal viewpoint, and yours too assuming you're conscious and have a viewpoint, it doesn't matter if an AI (or one of your fellow human beings) is conscious or not, the important thing is that the AI is intelligent and so are many of our fellow human beings. </span></font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span> </b></font></div><span class="gmail-im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><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 class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>>> </span>So yes, we humans will/can make machines that have the same fundamental physics "spark", and the details of the kinds and degrees of it will be different. Those machines cannot be based on general purpose computers </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>Why not?<span class="gmail_default"> </span> </b></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Because replicating the brain signalling physics of a natural brain has never happened.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Nobody has even tried to make an AI<span class="gmail_default"> that uses the same physiological processes that a biological brain does because those biological processes <u>SUCK</u> compared to electronic processes. </span> </b></font></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="auto"><div dir="auto"><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Since the beginning. A real artificial version of natural excitable cells would emanate an EEG and MEG like us. The physics of a general purpose computer doesn't do that<span class="gmail_default">.</span></font></i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Who cares! Long before EEG and MEG devices were invented people concluded that their fellow human beings were conscious. Why? Because they behaved intelligently.</b></font><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div><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"><br>
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