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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | by Mike Johnson The following is my considered evaluation of the Foundational Research Institute, circa July 2017. I discuss its goal, where I foresee things going wrong with how it defines suffering, and what it could do to avoid these problems. TL;DR version: functionalism ("consciousness is the sum-total of the functional properties of our brains")... | |
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disagreeableme.blogspot.com
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| | | | | I wanted to come out of blog dormancy to write up my thoughts on what I feel is a very important argument against computationalism. The... | |
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | Imagine that the year is 2050. A lot of AI applications are now a normal part of life. Cars drive themselves, homes clean themselves (and they do so more cheaply than maids possibly could) and even doctors have been now partially replaced with neural networks. But the so-called Kurzweilian Singularity never took off. You can... | |
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broadspeculations.com
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| | | A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I'm speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn't really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the changes in the long run bestow some advantage (or at least no disadvantage) to the survival of the organism. Let's rephrase the question: what evolutionary... | ||
