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CrelbowMannschaft t1_j97mazo wrote

Reply to comment by FusionRocketsPlease in How to definitely know if a system is conscious: by FusionRocketsPlease

I addressed your post in its entirety. Your assertion that computers must be conscious is false. Your assertion that in order to be conscious, a computer must be exactly modeled on the structure and function of the human brain is also false. From your false premises, you draw false conclusions.

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FusionRocketsPlease OP t1_j97obg3 wrote

1 - People like you are willing to give "rights" (!!!) to tools simply based on their behavior. Others are terrified and think Bing has a conscience just because he uses first-person words that denote emotion.

2 - And if you think that a computer can be conscious just because of code, that means you believe in an ultra-liberal form of functionalism, which can only be confirmed or refuted by what I proposed in my post.

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CrelbowMannschaft t1_j97p0lk wrote

  1. You don't know me, so you don't know what people "like me" are. I never said anything about giving rights to computers or tools, so don't put words in my mouth, please.

  2. It doesn't matter if a computer is conscious or not. It's silly for you to even bring up the subject. We can never know if someone other than ourselves is having a subjective, conscious experience of existence. It also doesn't matter, for reasons I've already stated.

Stop replying to me.

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ThoughtSafe9928 t1_j97w624 wrote

OK. So what makes Bing not appear to actually be conscious?

Now what if you fixed all of those issues? Now what’s preventing it from appearing actually conscious? Nothing? You can’t disprove it’s consciousness?

Well, if it looks like a zebra, eats like a zebra, sounds like a zebra, and acts like a zebra, it might be a zebra.

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