I don't think it depends on my views so much as it depends on the true nature of consciousness, which we don't yet understand and may never understand.

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Is consciousness emergent? Or does it require something else.

Getting religious here: does it require a "soul"?

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If it's emergent then it's merely the result of a powerul processor (brain).

We have clusters that we believe are more powerful than a human brain, but nothing is going to emerge from them that hasn't been programmed.

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If not, then we will do our best to simulate intelligence, which could be even worse as it would lack anything that would qualify as a conscience.

This raises new questions:

Can a non-conscious intelligence be taught the difference between good and evil, right and wrong?

Could it produce original thoughts? Would it ever even think about improving itself?

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Posted by SidewalkDawg

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Posted on 5/29/14 at 1:03 pm to Korkstand

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Getting religious here: does it require a "soul"?

Yes the "Something else" I was referring too would be a soul. Traditionally the arguement for the nature of consiousness involved Emergent or Embodied consciousness.

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We have clusters that we believe are more powerful than a human brain, but nothing is going to emerge from them that hasn't been programmed.

Yes, more powerful at its designed task - data processing. Humans are particulary poor at data processing. A simple calculator is superior to us. This again goes back to our poor understanding of the brain and consciousness, it obviously involves more than just processing power.

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This raises new questions:
Can a non-conscious intelligence be taught the difference between good and evil, right and wrong?
Could it produce original thoughts? Would it ever even think about improving itself?

These I cannot answer definitively. We just don't know.

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