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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is there life after death?
« on: 01/06/2016 17:47:02 »
Still, what do we mean by life? What is life?
For example, if we define life as the biological processes taking place inside our bodies than clearly after death these processes end.

Then I guess a more focused question is if our consciousness continues in some form in the absence of biological processes making up our bodies. Why should I believe that if a deep sleep or a general anesthesia can extinguish it?

 
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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Is consciousness a metaphysical experience of reality?
« on: 23/12/2015 20:26:20 »
Quote from: Ethos_ on 23/12/2015 17:58:41
A few thoughts about AI:

Could an AI computer feel sorrow or regret when faced with an error of it's own making?

Could an AI computer fall in love with another AI computer without being instructed to do so?

Could an AI computer appreciate art to the extent that it could distinguish between beauty and ugliness also without instruction?

And lastly, could an AI computer enjoy the activity of "playing" even though the "playing" had no specific profit or progress as it's goal?

I frankly don't know the answers to these questions myself and I would hazard a guess that it's highly unlikely that definitive answers to these questions will ever be answered with any degree of certainty.



If by AI you mean Turing Machine, then my answer is NO. More than just Turning Machine is needed to get "feel", just like more than Turning Machine is needed to solve Halting or tilling problems.

My suspicion is that our minds/thinking rely on physical processes that cannot be completely translated to a Turning Machine, in other words our minds may rely on a computing model superior to Turning machines.

Also, the raw conscious "feel" of something may have nothing to do with any kind of computing model.
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