[Philip Benjamin]
The question: "If simple creatures like worms or insects are conscious,
(because they
have brains, and evolved), then wouldn't these artificial life forms be
conscious for the same reasons? " is irrelevant. Simple creatures reproduce.
Will robots reproduce? Baby robots? Do they have a desire for and grow on the
pablum of metal powder and vaseline? Simple creatures trans-speciated from what
? Worms evolve into worms? The oldest fossils found are algae and bacteria.
Still the same type of bacteria and algae today!!
Philip Benjamin
Nonconformist to Marxist-Socialist pagan globalism of the WAMP.
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From: everything-list@googlegroups.com <everything-list@googlegroups.com> On
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Subject: Re: Is Artificial Life Conscious?
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 09:38:40PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote:
> Artificial Life such as these organisms:
> Have neural networks that evolved through natural selection, can adapt
> to a changing environment, and can learn to distinguish between "food" and
> "poison"
> in their environment.
>
> If simple creatures like worms or insects are conscious, (because they
> have brains, and evolved), then wouldn't these artificial life forms
> be conscious for the same reasons?
>
> Why or why not?
Most insects can't be consious (see my paper "Ants are not conscious"). Most
ALife forms created to date are simpler than insects, and probably even worms,
so are unlikely to be consious either.
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