Maya
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Joined: Dec. 2007
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vjtorley comes so close to making sense: | Quote | | Now if all those obstacles could be overcome and somebody could build a robot with a body, with the requisite formal/finalistic features I listed (master program, nested hierarchy and embedded functionality) then it would certainly be alive. It would also be capable of learning, too, so it would have a mind of sorts. Would it be conscious, in some sense? If you think (as I’m inclined to do) that having qualia is caused by having a sufficiently well-organized brain, then it would. |
So far, so sane. Clearly vjtorley has at least triple the intelligence of the average UD denizen.
Then, unfortunately, he continues:
| Quote | | But would it be capable of genuine thinking and choosing? I’d say no. I don’t think these are thins we do with our bodies, as they involve not just behaving in accordance with a rule, but adhering to a norm. Adhering to a norm is not a physical activity. So the robot wouldn’t be rational. |
Thinking is magic!
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