[FRIAM] Eternal questions

[Pieter Steenekamp]

The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and instinct’.
This is obviously not true, it's just an illusion.

But then, according to Daniel Dennett, human consciousness is just an
illusion.
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 09:18, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> "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.
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence
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