On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:54 AM 'Cosmin Visan' < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
*> So ultimately they are not "artificial", but natural, grown through > biological processes, not assembled in a factory. Then they are natural and > are not made of atoms, but are made by invisible natural processes that are > also responsible for the workings of consciousness. I think this fact must > be stated out clearly: biology is not made out of atoms!* > I agree that biology is about processes but you have to ask yourself what is being processed? The only answer is the way atoms are arranged, and it doesn't make any difference if the atoms are of carbon or silicon if the process is the same. Saying an AI can't be conscious because its brain is dry and hard and not wet and squishy is as silly as saying another human can't be conscious if his skin color is different from mine. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
