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cpwm17
(3,829 posts)103. Some people, including some scientists, think that consciousness
will automatically emerge in computers if we make them complicated enough. Or at least consciousness in AI is reasonably possible.
Some think the inability to explain the role of consciousness in our brains means that consciousness has no role. They think consciousness will just appear if you make an AI computer complicated enough.
I think the fact that we experience pain and pleasure and the profound effect they have on our behavior certainly shows that consciousness has an important role.
I am skeptical of the ability to ever make a conscious computer. We don't understand how our own brains make consciousness and we will never truly understand. If man ever makes one, it would have to be artificially evolved.
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A whole arm, leg, branch of theology is dedicated to understanding your question
TexasProgresive
Aug 2016
#2
Those are great questions that should be asked. Religion isn't going to answer them though.
cleanhippie
Aug 2016
#11
The most sophisticated believers realized the inherent contradiction in this long ago...
trotsky
Aug 2016
#7
Is it also "reasonable to assume" that since we are told that suffering is a necessary consequence..
trotsky
Aug 2016
#46
Still doesn't explain a universe full of suffering that is mostly incompatible...
Humanist_Activist
Aug 2016
#40
Well, "free will" really does become a matter of faith for Christians, since...
trotsky
Aug 2016
#90
Artificial intelligence hasn't advanced with the ability to write what I write,
cpwm17
Aug 2016
#100
Being an asshole, God placed the Tree of Knowledge where he knew Adam would eat
immoderate
Aug 2016
#20
I've wondered why this all-knowing God didn't know enough to create a female counterpart
bulloney
Aug 2016
#29
That seems to be a stretch, particularly since, technically, female is the "default" for...
Humanist_Activist
Aug 2016
#41
Since there is no obvious other candidate world to compare to this world,
struggle4progress
Aug 2016
#44