StringJunky

If you want to play around with regional teas, Twinings teas are worth looking into. https://www.twinings.co.uk/tea If she likes drinking her tea the strength of tar i.e. stewed, then what she's on now is as good as ought.

Yes, emergence is a murky concept but there it is and we as 'wet' machines are proof of it.... unless you want to go all metaphysical on me. The task is to find the paths from which sentience/consciousness emerges. Dark matter and dark energy are 'murky' concepts but you don''t dismiss them do you?

It emerges from the complexity of simultaneous operations; there isn't a 'point' at which it appears. That's like saying "At what point did we evolve from our most recent ancestor to what we are now?" or "How many grains of sand does it take to make a desert?" There comes a level of sufficient complexity that is indistinguishable from that which AI is trying to emulate. If it walks like a duck... If an AI performs every operation of a sentient being, it is sentient. The hardest thing to grasp is the idea of emergence; it's a major feature in biology.

He's an evangelist for atheism.

I think we'd go with it in the long-term but I'm not sure at the moment due to Brexit making us rather insular atm. The reality is, the US is losing the game of capitalism... ironic really.

A lot of Americans need to realize they are part of an interdependent global economy. Going back to to an island mentality - MAGA - is a losing strategy. Even China realized that.

It should be clear what his agenda is from the title, so one shouldn't be surprised.

https://www.scienceforums.net/profile/128623-ritastrakosha/content/ You have an ongoing obsession with homosexual matters as those it's a pathology.

Cheers. It's slowly dawning on me what the particle physicists are doing in particle colliders.

In the natural state, was the electroweak force only a primordial force; existing only in the early stages of the universe?

Relativity doesn't usurp Newtonian gravity in every respect. Relativistic gravity has infinite range too because it is spacetime, which is a continuum; it will diminish inverse-squarely as far as you like.

I have a feeling your ulterior motives and Bailey's are at odds, going by what you've posted in the past. He's talking about different issues which you appear to be erroneously aligning with yours. The difference between you and him is that you are a moral crusader and he's a scientist trying to unravel human sexuality against a background of social obstacles, like pro-LGBT activism, which is constantly on the defence because of historical stigmas.

That's true,

I like Jackson Pollack's stuff. When you look at his body of work, they are anything but random.

A wrestling match is soap opera with a sport narrative. For a proper wrestling match, sumo is the sport to watch.

The list up to GR would do me. I'd be ready for my after that lot.

As long as the information that is you is stored, you should always exist or at least in a state of potential to be animate. It's an emergent, behavioural property of the brain. It doesn't matter to know what it is, only that it can be replicated and be useful.

OK.

But the focus is on sentience. AI is just an umbrella term for processes that are autonomous. AI doesn't necessarily mean clever.

Yes, 'functional equivalence' is a good way to put it. I don't think anybody has brought intelligence into it... unless you are being rhetorical. If an AI contains all the operating information of a sentient being, then it is sentient because it contains the necessary information. Sentience emerges from the mechanical processes contained within. The sentient-like behaviour arises with sufficient complexity such that the two types are indistinguishable.I don't know that you are sentient, only that you behave like someone that has it.

As long as we can digitize to a resolution that for practical purposes is unnoticeable; rather like digital photography has reached and surpassed the 20MP boundary, whereby at normal picture sizes analogue and digital prints are indistinguishable. The keyword is 'indistinguishable' when saying whether AI can be like some aspect of a biological organism. If they are not distinguishable they are the same. If it walks like a duck....

Pass.

I'll put that idea in a box and let it float away into oblivion.

Akin to winning the national lottery several times in a row?