sphulcrum t1_iuh5vdb wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:45 AM

Reply to comment by SwansonHOPS in Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory by mossadnik

What a gotcha moment....

The creature you're describing doesn't exist. If you're talking about a human that has no working sensory inputs ,its brain would still be wired in the same way as if they do work. Hence it would indeed have conscious thoughts.

Whatdosheepdreamof t1_iuhlky5 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:09 PM

You want to know the actual gotcha moment in this? This is why AI will never materialise in the fashion that most think will take over humans. It is simply this. That our minds and bodies are the same thing. They cannot work separately. If there were an AI capable of thinking like we do, it likely would come to a singular conclusion, that there is no point. We exist to avoid death and reproduce, and there are hormones built into our existence that ensure this happens.