Re:The Illusion of AI’s Existential Risk
by mjburgess on Thursday July 20, 2023 @06:27AM
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Sentience without consciousness is just cartesian dualism again: society without people; forests without trees; etc.
Sentience is a power of consciousness which is a power of the body which is a power of the cells of the body.
There is no dualism other than in the imagination: one could imagine some fuzzy distant "forest" without thereby imagining trees -- so much for the imagination.
Sentience is a power of consciousness which is a power of the body which is a power of the cells of the body.
There is no dualism other than in the imagination: one could imagine some fuzzy distant "forest" without thereby imagining trees -- so much for the imagination.