[alicebot-aiethics] ZOMBIES

[eric thompson]

There's that "never" word... :)

eric

--- Tamara Thompson <txt5593@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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