Tuesday, June 14, 2005

The Ethics of Creating Consciousness

"Traditionally human beings have reserved words like 'reasoning,' 'self-awareness,' and 'soul' as their exclusive property. But with the stirring of something akin to electronic consciousness -- some argue that human beings need to give up the ghost, and embrace the machine in all of us."

Good bumper-sticker there: "EMBRACE THE MACHINE."
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2 comments:

Gerald T said...

Actually with our record for crafting mass extinctions in this world we may want to think about getting a handle on our out of control uncreating of consciousness ability first.

12:22 PM
Gerald T said...

Yea why brain as the center big B?
What if conciseness is just a nexus point, a singularity in 3d space n time, and what if this grid is infinite? That would mean that anything you happen to observe is a conscious entity, not just life, not just your self and other people, but all matter/energy.
This makes the building of some contraption to make awareness kind of silly, because all the parts of the computer are already at various states of awareness.
Just a thought

2:44 AM

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