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Re:Can AI Become Conscious? by mewpmewp2 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:48PM (#23160353)
How do you determine something can be tortured?

What if you remove the ability of a person to feel pain? Modify chemistry just enough to always be high as if she had injected heroin? Does it mean the person is not conscious any more?

If we can simulate all particles of a human on a supercomputer and all the reactions to torture will be the same is it not really tortured?

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Re:Can AI Become Conscious? by downerending on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:40PM (#23160962)
The heroin example is a fair point. I'm not sure. In practice, it's hard to think of examples of conscious beings that don't suffer.

As to the latter, it doesn't seem that that would be torture. As I said, though, I think we ultimately know nothing about this subject. Nor can we, even in principle.

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