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Re:Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests by root_axis on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:09AM (#20432335)
Why would it? A computer has no nervous system or self preservation biology that would make use of pain signals.
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Re:Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests by monort on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:32AM (#20432572)
We are talking about pain, not a pain signal. Decrementing register can be a pain signal, but it can't produce feeling of pain (qualia). If humans can be simulated on a Turing machine, we can't feel that definition of pain too.
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Re:Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests by lone_haxx0r on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:14PM (#20435698)
If we make a robot sufficiently similar to us, it would indeed feel pain (qualia). The real question is: Where is the complexity/similarity treshold?
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Re:Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests by monort on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:47AM (#20438657)
They obviously can't feel pain. Imagine you simulate that robot with a turing-complete cellular automaton on paper. At what moment in time will it feel pain as in qualia? When you scribe the next tick on a paper?
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