Re:Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
by schiffern on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:53PM
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One can equally say, "Human brains only know that a neuron is activated by a pattern of axon firing in response to physical inputs from nerve endings."
Does any of that change anything? Not really.
>It doesn't understand credit card rewards
Is this assertion based on anything but philosophical bias surrounding the word "understand"?
>it understands how to compose an elementary word problem into algebra
That's exactly how a human, who may or may not have understood rewards programs beforehand, would solve that word problem.
Dan Dennett is informative here.[0] Yes, consciousness (even your own!) can just be a bag of tricks.
Does any of that change anything? Not really.
>It doesn't understand credit card rewards
Is this assertion based on anything but philosophical bias surrounding the word "understand"?
>it understands how to compose an elementary word problem into algebra
That's exactly how a human, who may or may not have understood rewards programs beforehand, would solve that word problem.
Dan Dennett is informative here.[0] Yes, consciousness (even your own!) can just be a bag of tricks.
[0] https://youtu.be/fjbWr3ODbAo?t=25s