On 26 November 2013 01:17, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote: > Why computer consciousness and artificial intelligence are impossible. > > Acccording to Bertrand Russell, there are two types of knowledge: > > a) Knowledge by description. It is common knowledge that Obama is president. > > Example: Computer code. Artificial intelligence. Third person singular. > > b) Knowledge by experience. You have met Obama. > Example: Human perception. Human intelligence. First person singular. > > Computers cannot simulate human activities or experiences > or consciousness because they have to deal in code, which > consists of instructions or descriptions. Computers cannot > deal in knowledge by experience, so they cannot experience, > produce experiences, or understand experiences. > > Thus computer intelligence and artificial intelligence are impossible. > > Computers deal in code (third person singular). Only people and other > living entities can deal in experiences or be conscious (first person > singular.) > > So only humans and other living entities can be conscious or be truly > intelligent. > > Thus artificial intelligence is impossible > > This is the "Chinese Room argument", thinly disguised. It basically says there is / are some special properties that organisms have that computers can't have. Or to put it another way, it says that consciousness is not a form of computation.
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