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A comment on MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating AI. Parent comment
I would define thinking as the ability to evaluate propositions and evidence and arrive at some potentially useful plan or hypothesis.
I see no reason why a machine could not do this, but without any awareness ("consciousness") of itself doing it.
I also see no fundamental obstacle to true machine awareness either, but given your other responses, we can just disagree on that.
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I would define thinking as the ability to evaluate propositions and evidence and arrive at some potentially useful plan or hypothesis.
I see no reason why a machine could not do this, but without any awareness ("consciousness") of itself doing it.
I also see no fundamental obstacle to true machine awareness either, but given your other responses, we can just disagree on that.