I like that movie (which I have seen).
I think synthetic biological components are significantly involved, which makes the difference in making Ava conscious.. @philipthrift On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 4:23:52 PM UTC-5 agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > If you haven't viewed it, please do so. It's about the Turing Test, > science fiction, but the "special effects" aren't primarily photographic > bells and whistles, but the dialogue. the text, the logic of the script. > Recently, we have argued about consciousness, what it is, and how we can > test for it in the context of AI. I claimed that we could do some > superficial surgery to determine whether the subject of the test was a > robot or a conscious entity. But this is completely mistaken. All that that > would reveal is whether the subject was artificial, not whether it was > "conscious". The subject could have been a black box, and still showing > signs of what we can't really define; consciousness. I think Ex Machina > provides an answer of what we need to look for. Please view it and report > back. But do NOT read the plot, say in Wiki. It's a spoiler. AG > > -- 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/bbd10125-a095-4cb8-ac71-d820bc105eb5n%40googlegroups.com.
