Timeline for PhilPapers Survey 2020, Why do so many physicalists deny consciousness of future AI systems?
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| Oct 26, 2022 at 13:14 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | I'm waiting to see what happens when philosophy jobs are eliminated by AI. I know it's coming soon to programming. We just have to know how to stop the runaway genie, like in that old Star Trek episode. | |
| Jul 5, 2022 at 8:12 | vote | accept | ArAj | ||
| Apr 30, 2022 at 16:29 | comment | added | J D | @Dcleve Just sayin'. | |
| Apr 30, 2022 at 16:28 | comment | added | J D | Oh, and to be clear, I'm hereby affirming that Platonic thinking given the relationship between the abstract and physical is the main source of the bias that prevents a physicalist from affirming the likelihood of AGI, particularly notions of disembodied thought and abstraction in consistent with a response to mind-body duality that is either highly physically reductionist or highly idealistically reductionist. Enactivism, embodied cognition, and philosophical anthropology are all examples that successfully deal with mind-body and reject Cartesianism. | |
| Apr 30, 2022 at 16:21 | comment | added | J D | @Dcleve It simply is an empirical fact that some philosophical arguments are inherently weaker than others. If one makes the claim that 'physicalism' provides an adequate basis to reason your way to AGI', that is, largely through informal argumentation the question straddles the boundaries of correspondent-coherent truths expressed with adequate modality. It may stretch the metaphysical basis of discourse to evaluate the philosophical argument. I think it's fair to say, that scrapping over AGI is a healthy dose of both, but the argument is favor of AGI is far stronger than the one against it. | |
| Apr 30, 2022 at 16:18 | comment | added | J D | @Dcleve Fair criticism, but I'm not implying they're confused. I'm implying theyre certain about their beliefs that contain resolvable and dissoluble contradictions. The first is an opinion, and the latter is somewhere between expert opinion and fact. ; ) | |
| Apr 30, 2022 at 16:02 | comment | added | Dcleve | A set of speculations that assume that physicalists who reject the possibility of conscious machines, are confused or don't understand the subject -- strikes me as a "drinking one's own bathwater" type of answer to this question. It is more useful to identity the assumptions behind the AI assumption, and understand why not all physicalists accept them, rather than assume that they are confused. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 19:02 | history | edited | J D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2022 at 18:54 | history | answered | J D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |