AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue

Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by swid on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:00AM (#31863184)

Outside of quantum effects, which I don’t think it important for sentience, the universe is also deterministic. You have no control over particle interactions, chemical reactions and electric fields, yet we feel.

People always ask if the brain is a computer, decide it is not, and come to the conclusion that sentience would not work on a computer. I think the universe is the computer / algorithm and the brain is the data being fed into it, which leads me to say consciousness can exist digitally.

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Re:AI Sentience Is (Obviously) Not the Real Issue by dwringer on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:54AM (#31864212)

Now that is an interesting angle, I don't think we can so easily toss out quantum effects in the first half then follow up with such a provocative second half, though. AFAIK there are still some unsettled questions about how this would all work in practice.

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