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Why Computers Can’t Be Conscious
It comes down to your metaphysical assumptions. If you are a computational functionalist, if you assume that computations, carried out on digital computers, are sufficient for consciousness, then sooner or later, computers will imitate all human functions, including consciousness. If not today, then soon. If, on the other hand, you assume that cons
... See morefrom Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It by Christof Koch
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
