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Re:Artificial Intelligence How Do Machines 'Grok' Data by __MatrixMan__ on Sunday April 14, 2024 @03:00PM (#40033463)
> No one would ask whether the water-channel system 'groks' things

I would. It's very common to describe the flow of electricity as similar to the flow of water. If it's electricity in my brain that allows me to understand, why couldn't there be an analogous system involving water which also understands?

Any substrate which supports the necessary logical operations ought to be sufficient. To believe otherwise seems needlessly anthropocentric.

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Re:Artificial Intelligence How Do Machines 'Grok' Data by jrflowers on Sunday April 14, 2024 @05:04PM (#40034463)
> Any substrate which supports the necessary logical operations ought to be sufficient. To believe otherwise seems needlessly anthropocentric.

This makes sense. Anything that performs logic using electricity is conscious and comparable to the human brain. This is obviously true because there is no word or concept for anthropomorphizing

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