[alicebot-aiethics] ZOMBIES

[Tamara Thompson]

Don't say "never".  <smile>  'Agree with the probability being a bit low.

> What if a computer already has achieved the state of consciousness, and just
> lacks the means to tell us? And I don't mean making a program like Alice.
> The hardware -itself-? Maybe consciousness is just a by-product of milions
> of logical gates doing their work (or braincells). We will never know, since
> we are so fundamentally different from microchips that communication on any
> level will never be possible.
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