Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
by zitterbewegung on Thursday May 04, 2017 @12:25PM
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I think the reason that Penrose's hypothesis is brought up is that the study consciousness are a part of human philosophy since its very beginning. Consciousness is seen in people to be totally the domain of humans and Strong AI represents either instills a sense that humans aren't special that they have consciousness and that is why there is a divide where people like Penrose things Strong AI is impossible and people like Kurzweil thinks Strong AI is possible.
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Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
by goatlover on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:24PM
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Chalmers, Nagel & McGinn arguments are that there is a fundamental explanatory gap between objective processes and subjective experience. It's not because humans are special. Many other animals might be conscious. In Chalmers case, any informationally rich stream of data could be conscious, or possibly any physical system, if one wants to go all the way with panpsychism. The issue is the hard problem, not the uniqueness or humanity.