Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did?

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Once they start integrating actual brain matter into machines, maybe. But IDK if that would necessarily answer the question of if a machine could develop consciousness, like as in just silicon alone. Is it a machine if it’s just a brain attached to electronics? 🤔

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  • bookie@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They do have those computers that use brain cells, I believe it’s called ‘wetware’. They’re trying to see if it’ll be a cheaper alternative to AI. I just feel bad for the brains.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t know if I should feel any more than an insect or other animal. The brain matter isn’t like taking an actual animal’s brain and making it a computer; they’re growing synapses in a lab so even if they were conscious, I feel like it wouldn’t be much different to them as anything else that has always been that thing. Like they wouldn’t have any more of an existential crisis being a computer than we do about living in our own bodies.

      Now if they grew sapience that might be something to empathize with.

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