Dustin Arand
Apr 4, 2024

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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.

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Dustin Arand
Dustin Arand

Written by Dustin Arand

Lawyer turned stay-at-home dad. I write about philosophy, culture, and law. Author of the book “Truth Evolves”. Top writer in History, Culture, and Politics.

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