On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 2:27 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> > > On 4/26/2021 11:11 PM, Terren Suydam wrote: > > > Sure - although it seems possible that there could be intelligences that > are not conscious. We're pretty biased to think of intelligence as we have > it - situated in a meat body, and driven by evolutionary programming in a > social context. There may be forms of intelligence so alien we could never > conceive of them, and there's no guarantee about consciousness. > > > I don't see how an entity could be really intelligent without being able > to consider its actions by a kind of internal simulation. > Neither do I, but it may be a failure of imagination. The book Blindsight by Peter Watts explores this idea. > > Take corporations. A corporation is its own entity and it acts > intelligently in the service of its own interests. They can certainly be > said to "prospectively consider scenarios in which they are actors in which > the scenario is informed by past experience". Is a corporation conscious? > > > I think so. And the Supreme Court agrees. :-) > How about cities? Countries? Religions? Each of which can be said to "prospectively consider scenarios..." Terren > > Brent > > -- > 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/adcec69e-5c78-f355-9d35-a503d8d12d5f%40verizon.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/adcec69e-5c78-f355-9d35-a503d8d12d5f%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAMy3ZA8%2BpwJe448JksJQCWnRFp5_S6Z8%3DQV5HHesfiMOtiChZQ%40mail.gmail.com.
