Why a computer can never be conscious

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Why a computer can never be conscious

Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, then, that once brain functions are properly understood, it should be possible to program them into a computer. Microsoft recently announced that it would spend US$1 billion on a project to do just that.

So far, though, attempts to build supercomputer brains have not even come close. A multi-billion-dollar European project that began in 2013 is now largely understood to have failed. That effort has shifted to look more like a similar but less ambitious project in the U.S., developing new software tools for researchers to study brain data, rather than simulating a brain.

[The Conversation]
 
won't happen. human consciousness is greater than the sum of its parts. a machine will never achieve that.
 
Duh. Of course no machine can be conscious. It's an axiomatic truth. Just like the sum of the internal angles of a plane triangle can never be anything but 180 degrees. Ever. We know this without having to measure any or every triangle in the universe.
 
Zoomzoom said:
I can and I just did.
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and you would be wrong...

We are a machine, just like the computers... the difference largely is that we are biological and they are electronic and mechanical.

I would say anyone who says that conciousness in a computer (whatever that computer may be) is impossible is a monumental retard.
 
Zoomzoom said:
I can and I just did.
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You can say it, what I meant was whether what you said was right, which it wasn't.

You can't know until you try it, and we aren't advanced enough to try it yet, but the theory is plausible.

Arthur said:
Duh. Of course no machine can be conscious. It's an axiomatic truth. Just like the sum of the internal angles of a plane triangle can never be anything but 180 degrees. Ever. We know this without having to measure any or every triangle in the universe.
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Proof of it being an axiomatic truth? Triangle adding up to 180 is because we decided so and we based a lot of rules around it that seem to hold true, with lots of different theorems helping support it.

Where is your proof that the approach doesn't work? You can't prove a falsehood, so you won't be able to, what you can prove is that the approach fails, but we haven't made a system strong enough to actually emulate the brain in its entirety yet.
 
Technically, in a very narrow fashion certain "robots" are conscious already. They are aware of their surroundings and can respond to them.
 
Icarus flying too close to the sun
The tower of babel

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The brain is the most complex thing we know about, once we figure that out we'll know how women work and the simulation will end.
 
If consciousness is non computational then building a conscious machine is like animating a corpse.
 
This is what a conscious machine would want us to believe until it's too late to stop it.
 
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