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And how is that any different than a having an eye connected to a brain that sends electrical pulses through neurons? How do neurons generate your visual experience? So you are asking me to explain consciousness - something that no scientist has managed to do as yet. "Whereof one cannot speak,...

Who here, aside from Seeds, is claiming that sight requires consciousness? Atto. When light strikes photoelectric sensors, or photosensitive nerve endings, and converts light into electrical impulses, that is seeing. AI sees nothing. A computer cannot see. Thus when light strikes photoelectric sens...

Who here, aside from Seeds, is claiming that sight requires consciousness? Atto. When light strikes photoelectric sensors, or photosensitive nerve endings, and converts light into electrical impulses, that is seeing. AI sees nothing. A computer cannot see. Thus when light strikes photoelectric sens...

The windows to the world for AI is through it's sensory systems of the keyboard and mouse. AI responds to keyboard and mouse input like you respond to visual and auditory input. NO IT DOESN'T - put your hand into a fire and put a keyboard into a fire (or since u r so wrong, a robot hand) - do you t...

Some random guy who programmed it to learn on its own. So a guy programmed a machine of masses of switches to build a database of knowledge and this machine is going to go from that to killing a human!? Maybe the information in the database is all about how humans are evil planet-destroying apes? :...

Only sentient beings can have a will. For an AI to want to kill humans for example, it must be guided to via the will of a sentient being (a human). Sentience: If i am hungry, my will is to eat. If I look at the garden and see that the grass is long, my will is to get the lawnmower out. The windows...

Random activity could make an AI kill humans without ever wanting to or ever having a will installed by humans. Who gave the AI a 'random activity'? Some random guy who programmed it to learn on its own. So a guy programmed a machine of masses of switches to build a database of knowledge and this m...

1) I was Christian as a child, and quite a serious little believer.. So Y don't you believe in Christ NE more? And don't worry, none of what you do in relation to other people could possibly be connected to why you're a modern, up in your head about Christianity. I mean, it's not like on some very ...

What are these "Catholic fundamentals" - could you provide a list? Here I expected that. As a Catholic - being born into it, neither via school nor my occasional visits to Mass were there any fundamentals of Catholic faith 'preached'. It just was about what being a Christian entails. Why ...

I should mention that my present review of Catholic fundamentals has come to the fore because of my encounters with so many atheist types who write on this form. And I should also mention IC who had been a powerful negative influence that severely affected my appreciation of Christianity. I had to ...

What does it mean to have a will or purpose? Do you have a will or purpose? What is your ultimate purpose? Does your pet have a will or purpose? What about spiders and crabs, or jellyfish? What does it mean to be sentient? I think philosophers often throw these terms around without fully understand...

Sure, some of programming involves exploring what is possible, but the ultimate goal of any programmer is to solve a problem, or to automate some trivial or tedious job. I think the goal of AI programmers is to solve all problems and do all jobs. Yes, but… The AI per se would have no ultimate goal ...

Sure, some of programming involves exploring what is possible, but the ultimate goal of any programmer is to solve a problem, or to automate some trivial or tedious job. I think the goal of AI programmers is to solve all problems and do all jobs. Yes, but… The AI per se would have no ultimate goal ...

Where do polar bears go to vote?

The North Poll.

- Eternal truth means to be ever-present. As Sri Ramana Maharshi said to Sri H.L. Poonja, of what use is a God that comes and goes? ..and one might say back to Poonja, since when should God be required to be always utiltarian? Since when should God be required to always be useless? Nobody is saying...