<div dir="ltr">The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and instinct’. This is obviously not true, it's just an illusion.<br><br>But then, according to Daniel Dennett, human consciousness is just an illusion.<br><a href="https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf">https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 09:18, Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">"In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions (about intentionality, consciousness, free will, mind-body problem...) have become engineering problems", argues this Guardian article. </div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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