On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*>> Thanks to very recent developments I now know of two ways consciousness > can come to exist:* > *1) Through random mutation and natural selection, which produces > intelligence, which produces consciousness, although that process is very > slow.* > > *2) Consciousness can also be achieved through the administrations of > computer scientists, but unlike Evolution this way is exponentially fast. * > > > > *> What's been done is to create a computer (HW and SW)* > *IHA.* > *> which can mimic human speech and arguments so well, that you can't > distinguish it from entities you believe are conscious* > *Yes, but you are also "mimicking" human speech, you mimicked how to do it by watching and listening to adults when you were a child.* *> what's called AI, passes the Turing Test. AG* > *Yep, but I might add that modern AI's can pass the Turing Test with a considerably higher score than you can, so if they are not conscious then I would have to conclude that you are not either. ** I really wish you would answer a question that I posed in my last post: * *Is it really of fundamental cosmic importance that one of you has a brain that is wet and squishy while the other has a brain that is dry and hard? * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* waq > > > > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3rGwQNcV27iZ_cNOn0S3L1np1_t3MwgxfAdaCkoFZNEg%40mail.gmail.com.
