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Originally Posted by Rockstar
Sir Roger Penrose believes that consciousness is not computational. Our awareness is not simply a mechanistic byproduct, like something you can make a machine do. Penrose thinks the answer to consciousness may lie in a deeper knowledge of quantum mechanics.
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That's very interesting indeed!
I think I have to question the ethics involved with trying to create something that is self-aware/conscience through such artificial methods.
I mean, I like the sex bot/domestic helper idea to serve the interests of lonely people who would like to have something/anything realistic enough to serve as a substitute companion since our westernized societies (as well as Japan) are becoming individualistic-based and no longer family-based as they used to be.
It would be nice if men and women had a substitute of each other since we can no longer apparently tolerate living with one another since everything is a power struggle these days over who's going to wear the pants in the relationship.
So, I feel "realistic and convincing" A.I. should be the goal but self-aware and conscience of itself is scary stuff because then it will be considered "alive" and have real feelings and that's not fair to whatever is made in that manner where it (or they) will be considered freaks by the bulk of society. Weren't books like Frankenstein written to warn us about this sort of stuff?
I'm convinced that all this nature tampering stuff we dive into will become the death of us all eventually. So why do we do it? I'm just as curious as to WHY we, as humans, are so hellbent on trying to be like God and never satisfied with what we've been given?
I'm not super religious but the stories from the bible just seem to fit so well into the way human nature is. Apparently God gave us paradise and it wasn't enough. Adam and Eve wanted to have more than what they were given and condemned us all in the process of wanting more. And we seem to just keep following that same pattern, unable to stop ourselves, and unable to ever appreciate just what we have been given. We seem to need constant change because we are never satisfied with what we have. And then it's like we almost always end up regretting the changes we make, wanting to have back what can no longer be.
The human story, is such a tragic one. I think that's how a future intelligent species that learns of us will see it long after humans have caused themselves to go extinct. That or they'll just say we were idiots!
