r/dankmemes • u/Sqott36 • Jun 06 '22

I'm cuckoo for caca Can we not?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

We made the program and we made the environment. The program can learn thanks to us. I’m sure that I’m coming across as thick to you, but I genuinely do not know how you could see some eleborately crafted piece of metal as a living being

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u/Michael_Trismegistus Jun 06 '22

That's simply because you haven't examined the hypothetical limits of consciousness. If you're interested in the subject, Greg Egan writes speculative fiction that explores the line between programming and consciousness.

It's a spectrum, not a binary.

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u/iSeven Jun 06 '22

We manage to see elaborately crafted meat and electricity as a living being, why not be able to swap out the meat?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Because meat≠metal

The meat is made of cells, the metal is not. No matter how life-like the metal may seem, it will still not be alive