[alicebot-aiethics] Consciousness?

[Dr. Richard S. Wallace]

Kristina = Christina ?

> Do you think that artificial intelligence will lead to selfconsciousness
of the program in the end?

No.  I think we have discovered that we are not self-conscious.
Consciousness is only an anthropocentric illusion, like Ptolemy's Solar
System.  We are the robots.

> An organic intelligence.
If I were going to build a computer from scratch, the last material I would
choose is meat.

Dr. Rich