On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:01 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> If Evolution just stumbled onto consciousness because a astronomically >> unlikely mutation occurred and not because it was the byproduct of >> intelligence then it would be of neutral survival value and the human race >> would have lost that property long ago by genetic drift. >> > > > No, because consciousness might be a necessary byproduct of human like > intelligence, but not of all possible ways to achieving intelligence. > Evolution is constrained in what adaptations it can develop. > Then just like Evolution we will find that it is easier to make a conscious intelligent computer than to make a non-conscious intelligent computer; the first human level AI will be conscious, and if we wish to make a computer that is equally smart but not conscious it will take a great deal more R&D. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
