Actual reason I'm not afraid of AI: Pure gut instinct.
How can you know there are no other possible states of awareness?
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Things have to have causal effects to exist. Every non-mind state of 'awareness' can be explained without the awareness. It is Sagan's garage dragon.
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Physics takes any physical event to have purely physical causes, yet we believe mental causes to be responsible for (physical) human actions. We just don't fully understand causality yet, other forms of awareness wouldn't be any more problematic than human consciousness itself
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Humans have the specialized hardware. Indeed there's probably billions of them in the brain.
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All kinds of hardware could have concomitant states of awareness. I don't think there's one type of specialised hardware and it just cropped up in the evolution of savannah apes somehow
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No, it can't. I checked. I never said it was restricted to apes. It might go all the way back to nematodes. But it's not going to be accidentally assembled by a human.
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How did you check?
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I used analytic logic and ludicrous levels of exhaustive search.
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I think the question would require empirical methods that are currently unfeasible to really determine an answer
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