On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:52 PM Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.net> wrote:
> > I attended a presentation the other day of a psychologist who is > investigating the sort of relationships that people develop with voice > assistants such as Alexa. She told the story of a woman who admits to being > emotionally attached to her Alexa. She says that she is not crazy or > deluded. This woman is an engineer and she has a pretty good grasp of what > Alexa is, and how it works in general. And yet, the emotional attachment > still kicks in. So I guess, according to your idea, we should start > searching Alexa for an initial model of consciousness? > I have an emotional attachment to my art collection. Should I start searching prints by George Baldessin and Lionel Lindsay for an initial model of consciousness? Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSrPp%3D%3DhhLE_ofvm64_FLKZ70%3D79zyLA3wKvrrKNxGVww%40mail.gmail.com.
