dragon-in-a-fez:

argumate:

greatpostsonline:

the-clockwork-crows:

greatpostsonline:

it’s going to be another 20 or 30 years before we start killing each other over this but i’m just letting you know now that a computer can never be conscious or sentient

If you earnestly believe this, explain why

i can’t really be bothered right now but tl;dr because consciousness doesn’t emerge from configurations of matter

and yet my consciousness stays stubbornly affixed to a most inconvenient configuration of matter, despite all my protestations for it to astrally project some damn place else

me, a conscious being made entirely of matter:

are yall okay back in the philosophy debates from 1670