However, it is an entirely different thing to equate a hunk of metal with life, and ignoring the consequences to life simply because one is infatuated with a hunk of metal. That hunk of metal will not care for you, share its journey with you, embrace you when you need to feel loved. — Rich
Considering that most life forms on earth would prefer to consume you in some way rather than give a hug, I don't think that makes a very good distinction for life. — praxis
Experience. A microbe, mosquito, or a tree has never tried to give me a hug. Maybe I'm too standoffish? Anyway, I'm not opposed to granting the illustrious title of "life" to an artificial intelligence of some kind. — praxis
I'm just wondering whether scientists are holding the wrong side of the bat. Have they even tried something as simple as I've suggested viz. connecting together a bunch of wires with some fixed set of protocols as to how a signal traverses the network and then connect an output device to the network to see what happens? This doesn't sound too expensive to me. — TheMadFool
I'm not playing. Given that, due to humans, we're in the midst of the sixth global extinction event, — praxis
The brain's architecture surely has something to do with the way our minds are. — TheMadFool
I appreciate that scientists have to make a living, and dreaming up stories that people eat up (like all science fiction writers must do) but I'm really not into it. — Rich
Memristors are where it's at, apparently.... some materials are being developed that can be used to create artificial neurons and synapses that work in a pretty similar way to the real thing.Say hello to "neuromorphic engineering". — Jake Tarragon
There's no certainty AT ALL that a digitized intelligence would do any better with the natural world than we have. You are assuming that your AI would be god like. It might be more fiend like. — Bitter Crank
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