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cp9 ◴[] No.45778237[source]
It’s a computer it does not think stop it
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empath75 ◴[] No.45778322[source]
All intelligent systems must arise from non-intelligent components.
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1. measurablefunc ◴[] No.45779612[source]
Not clear at all why that would be the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap.

It must be confessed, moreover, that perception, & that which depends on it, are inexplicable by mechanical causes, that is, by figures & motions, And, supposing that there were a mechanism so constructed as to think, feel & have perception, we might enter it as into a mill. And this granted, we should only find on visiting it, pieces which push one against another, but never anything by which to explain a perception. This must be sought, therefore, in the simple substance, & not in the composite or in the machine. — Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology, sect. 17