Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism
by osmarks on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:59PM
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It would be harder to emulate but I see no intrinsic reason you couldn't.
Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism
by n4r9 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:01PM
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I'm get your point but I also think you've answered it yourself. You can give time and experience to a software mind by programming in that new layer...
Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism
by WhompingWindows on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @10:52AM
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How do you program a software mind to have had infancy, childhood, and a lifetime of social human interaction? I'm saying that's MUCH harder than simply making neural nets to perform specific duties.
Re:Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism
by n4r9 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:42PM
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Yeah it'll be harder, but I don't see anything in principle which makes it impossible. If you can simulate the growth and plasticity of the brain to enough precision, then you could probably simulate 20 years of development in a very short time.
Maybe I'm making a massively overly pedantic point. It's just that your post began with a claim that certain things "cannot be given" to an artificial mind, which sounded like you were proposing absolute limits to AI.
So no, I don't think it's possible to create a simulated brain that behaves similarly as a human, as the biological medium is in a constant state of dissolution, repair, evolution, and adaptation. This is how we learn, get stressed, get tired, get certain emotions...it's a whole new layer of programming you'd need to perfect beyond just replicating a brain at one moment in time.
A brain in silico would be apples:oranges different than a biological brain.