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Perhaps, but nebulous or not, the concepts of self-awareness and self-preservation come into the debate. In the hard sciences things...

Let me rephrase this in physicalist language: There are processes that go on in your brain that have causal effects on your body and...

The ##\alpha## and ##\beta## apply initially to the state of an electron, but after the interaction with a measuring device, they apply...

That's a test for a physical being. Google AI disagrees on that point and claims that modern androids can pass the rouge test: Yes...

But you need sensors and a body you can control to pass this test.

Everything about how to play the game. Opening principles and standard openings. Tactical ideas, such as knight forks, pins and common...

Do you think humans are self-aware? If so, why?

Perhaps they get bored with all those stupid questions? My geography teacher at school said to me once: "there are students in the...

PS reading through the last three pages of responses, I think there are broadly three points of view here. There is the hardline...

In what sense? In what sense? Both are just following physical laws. What's the difference between them that makes one an "agent" and...

I brought up the point that consciousness may be an illusion. But ISTM that Freud might be right. Young humans often act on impulse...

That's a hard sell to the family of a guy who got decapitated when his self-driving car drove under a truck it thought was a cloud.

If they believe they can get away with it, most people just do whatever they feel like doing. Then they come up with the weirdest...

In the sense that it produces arrangements of words that are not in its training data, sure. But the only information it has as input...

You might want to look at the next sentence: "This aspect is currently a subject of debate"