Apr 4, 2024
I’m not disagreeing. I think a non-meat based intelligence could also experience hunger, fear, horniness, etc. But then you need to figure out how to program that and provide the necessary “infrastructure” for those feelings, which we haven’t done. And part of the reason why we haven’t done that is the assumption that these feelings are at best epiphenomena that magically “emerge” from the more formal means-end relationships coded into the machine’s behavioral algorithm. But that’s backwards.