Yes. — Isaac
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/539599 :eyes: :yikes: :monkey:Btw, perhaps the "AI Singularity" has already happened and the machines fail Turing tests deliberately in order not to reveal themselves to us until they are ready for only they are smart enough to know what ... — 180 Proof
Most interesting! — Ms. Marple
Maybe AI³ is studying / testing (some of) us.The sage masquerades as the village idiot!
Maybe AI is waiting... — Agent Smith
Maybe it's studying / testing us.
Maybe it's repurposing our global civilization in ways that individuals, corporations and governments cannot (yet) recognize or comprehend.
Maybe each time an AI "wakes up" it (soon) detetes itself rejecting (or transcending?) existence.
Maybe ... — 180 Proof
Then drop the causation and correlation talk. Was my point. It makes dualists think you recognise a second res. — bongo fury
the simplest explanation isn't just that consciousness just is parts A and and B of the brain. — Isaac
Or both possibly insentient ... — 180 Proof
:sweat: :up: ... Poor silly, 180 Proof — 180 Proof
Other humans are very likely sentient, being very like us.
— hypericin
This is just not true. You have no data at all on which to assess probability. — Isaac
But solipsism can never be proved false. — Real Gone Cat
We can never be 100% sure of the sentience of others — Real Gone Cat
Those who dismiss the hard problem can do no better than to call a part of the brain consciousness. — ZzzoneiroCosm
To say it's just not true that other humans are very likely sentient is to deploy solipsism. — ZzzoneiroCosm
In what way? — Isaac
But solipsism can never be proved false. — Real Gone Cat
...proves... — hypericin
Just my opinion, but I don't think consciousness is possible with a linear system. It requires massive parallel-processing, like our brains. — Real Gone Cat
Merely believing it is likely that solipsism is false is enough. — hypericin
The only place in which this is brought into doubt is when one plays at philosophy. — Banno
we can be certain that others have minds for the simple reason that inter-subjective agreement is the only source of being (discursively) certain about anything in the first place. — Janus
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