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What piece of technology can we not have because of society? (piefed.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Cool. So its still feasible?

I mean still fuck me for thinking its feasible in the future while its not real and readily available at this exact moment, but its not definitively impossible.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    We'd have to define the end goal clearly enough for it to be feasible. Is it possible for a machine to do every -action- a human is likely to do, as an imitation? Sure. We're pretty close to that now.

    Can we define consciousness or intelligence in a way that does not eliminate free will, so that we can build a machine that has either? That's a much harder ask. Free will is the opposite of a deterministic universe, and if we're in a deterministic universe then absolutely a machine can be made as good or better than a human, but we won't have free will so whether or not we ever make that then depends on the starting conditions of the universe.

    If we do have free will the question then becomes what gives us free will and can we recreate what gives us free will so we may impart it on others.

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