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goatlover 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Could AIs Become Conscious?

I didn't say AIs couldn't be conscious, only that mimicking behavior (or speech) is not a way to become conscious.

arde 33 days ago [–]

I'm sorry, then what was that "more scientific" reason you gave for?

goatlover 33 days ago | [–]

Lack of sensory organs due to lack of a body. A sophisticated enough robot might be able to have conscious experience. That gets into the harder problem that Ned Block laid out where we don't know whether consciousness is biological or functional.

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