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Even monkeys have sentience, we simply just have way better hardware. That leads to a conclusion that sentience is not exclusive to humans.
If you don't believe me see gorilla talking (with hands) the day it was captured. Crying "it's" mother was killed etc...
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Originally posted by diseasex View Posthaha define "I-ness"
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIt's more likely that German humans are not as sophisticated when it comes to computers
Fair point about the pronoun, although that wasn't the point I was making.
It's the "I-ness" that a computer clearly doesn't have.
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Not something you ever get over. There'll be good days there'll be bad days.
Happiness is a choice. Choose wisely!
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostSo whether or not something is sentient is defined by which English pronoun is used?
In German a Computer is a 'He'. Are German computers smarter than ours?
Fair point about the pronoun, although that wasn't the point I was making.
It's the "I-ness" that a computer clearly doesn't have.
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Originally posted by diseasex View PostWhat if your brain rots after you die?
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Cogito ergo sum
...and that's what separates me from some of the posters on here.
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Originally posted by Uncle Albert View PostHow do you know that you know now what you knew when you went to sleep? You might have invented a cure for cretinism but have completely forgotten all about it.
Life is just a flow of matter, our atoms later become fertiliser and become plants that get eaten by cows etc..... matter flows around the universe.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostDefine "consciousness".
I had no consciousness for several hours last night. I wasn't dead. When I woke up I still knew what I knew before I went to sleep, as did my computer when I woke it up.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostThe clue lies in the underlined words. Notice you said you woke it up not "him" or "her" up.
The computer doesn't know its its an "I" - at least at the current state of the art.
In German a Computer is a 'He'. Are German computers smarter than ours?
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostDefine "consciousness".
I had no consciousness for several hours last night. I wasn't dead. When I woke up I still knew what I knew before I went to sleep, as did my computer when I woke it up.
The computer doesn't know its its an "I" - at least at the current state of the art.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostBollox. Even when a computer is fully functional it has no consciousness.
I had no consciousness for several hours last night. I wasn't dead. When I woke up I still knew what I knew before I went to sleep, as did my computer when I woke it up.
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