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Originally Posted by andyh2000
[...]Then there's the ' Chinese room' argument which I just find plain silly. Individual neurons in our brains aren't intelligent but we call the overall system a mind. I don't see why a computer shuffling bits should be any different.
Andrew |
But I always found Pratchett rather convincing around this idea: form shapes function. (eg: Granny Weatherwax occupying the mind of other creatures.) This is one reason why I've found SF that talks of uploading minds into computers unconvincing; much of what makes us who we are stems from the constraints of the body. Remove those constraints and how long would we remain recognisable? Given that, how are we to define, let alone recognise, an intelligence formed under totally different constraints?