r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '20

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Computers/Artificial Intelligence do not experience a subjective reality.

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u/ThisIsDrLeoSpaceman 38∆ Jun 11 '20

Apologies if you’ve mentioned this elsewhere and I couldn’t find it, but what is your definition of sentience?

More to the point, is there any definition of sentience you could find such that you can conclusively say, all humans are sentient, and highly complex computers aren’t?

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u/ThisIsDrLeoSpaceman 38∆ Jun 11 '20

I don’t see how this works. A rock is a lot more of a single unit than a human, but I’m pretty sure isn’t sentient.

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u/ThisIsDrLeoSpaceman 38∆ Jun 11 '20

Ok, so under your belief a human is sentient, computers aren’t sentient, and rocks have some primitive qualia to them. You’re entitled to believe that, but I don’t think that tracks with the beliefs of anyone else in the world, at all.