On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 7:32 PM Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >* it supports the idea that philosophical zombies could not be produced > by natural (Darwinian) selection. But it say nothing about the possibility > that such beings could be produced artificially; eg. via AI.* > *> That is strictly true, but it would entail that consciousness is some > sort of side-effect peculiar to organic chemistry (or whatever the special > ingredient is), and not a consequence of intelligent behaviour.* But even if somebody believed that a carbon atom has some sort of magical potential to produce consciousness that a silicon atom lacked I'll but they don't believe that all structures that contain organic molecules are conscious, such as a coal seam or a pile of dirty rags or a tree, because those things are not behaving intelligently. I bet they don't even believe their fellow human beings are always conscious, not when they're sleeping or under anesthesia or dead, and for exactly the same reason. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> sud > -- 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/CAJPayv3c9mNd8EtxMR4iadFsvuQo80WYvPzzcEFu%2Bwg6qRJuJg%40mail.gmail.com.
