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Is consciousness programmable?

Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 5:39 pm
by Moth
Do you think consciousness is a process that can be simulated by computers to produce an artificial intelligence?

Re: Is consciousness programmable?

Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:28 pm
by David2
I don't think that's possible.

Sending electric current through lifeless materials won't create consciousness.

Re: Is consciousness programmable?

Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:50 pm
by equilibrium
Unlikely to happen as humans cannot create perfection.....because perfection does not exist.....nothing does.

Re: Is consciousness programmable?

Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 11:10 pm
by Rui Sousa
Interesting question.

I have been writing software for nearly 20 years, it is my conviction that software can simulate consciousness, but it would not be consciousness.

There a limit to this, this programmed consciousness would always be a representation of what the software developer understood consciousness to be. I believe that someone who has a clear and deep understanding of consciousness would hardly waist time writing software code.

Artificial intelligence is also very limited in the way it mimics human minds. The understanding of reality by the programmers, limits the software abilities to perform in real situations.