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Re:What Does It Mean for AI to Understand? by mcguire on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:46PM (#29584411)
Ah, but the question remains: Are you intelligent? :-)

How do consciousness and intention emerge from materials that are alive and that have neither consciousness nor intention?

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Re:What Does It Mean for AI to Understand? by mannykannot on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:55PM (#29586805)
How does life emerge from materials that are not alive?

It is still possible to believe all of current scientific knowledge and also be a vitalist without contradiction, but few people aware of the state of current knowledge hold that artificial life is utterly implausible.

Einstein famously held that certain experimental outcomes could only be explained by local hidden variables, but we have since found, to the contrary, that they actually rule out local hidden variables as an explanation.

Statements of incredulity are not, by themselves, evidence against a proposition.

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