On Jun 4, 11:50 pm, Torgny Tholerus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Caylor skrev: > > > I think that IF a computer were conscious (I don't believe it is > > possible), then the way we could know it is conscious would not be by > > interviewing it with questions and looking for the "right" answers. > > We could know it is conscious if the computer, on its own, started > > asking US (or other computers) questions about what it was > > experiencing. Perhaps it would saying things like, "Sometimes I get > > this strange and wonderful feeling that I am "special" in some way. I > > feel that what I am doing really is significant to the course of > > history, that I am in some story." Or perhaps, "Sometimes I wish that > > I could find out whether what I am doing is somehow significant, that > > I am not just a duplicatable thing, and that what I am doing is not > > 'meaningless'." > > public static void main(String[] a) { > > println("Sometimes I get this strange and wonderful feeling"); > println("that I am 'special' in some way."); > println("I feel that what I am doing really is significant"); > println("to the course of history, that I am in some story."); > println("Sometimes I wish that I could find out whether what"); > println("I am doing is somehow significant, that I am not just"); > println("a duplicatable thing, and that what I am doing"); > println("is not 'meaningless'."); > > } > > You can make more complicated programs, that is not so obvious, by > "genetic programming". But it will take rather long time. The nature > had to work for over a billion years to make the human beings. But with > genetic programming you will succeed already after only a million > years. Then you will have a program that is equally conscious as you are. > > -- > Torgny Tholerus
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