Tag: qualia
Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”?
The Difference Between Humans and Machines
Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human?
Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine
Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams.
No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code
These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps.
The Non-Computable Human
An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions to accomplish a task. A recipe for German chocolate cake is an algorithm.