Imagine doing a Turing Test on social media platforms: try to have a conversation with the hiveminds and see to which degree they achieve coherence and intelligibility.
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Replying to @Plinz
Next level: try convincing people they're actually robots!
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Replying to @Dschingis_Hahn
People that don't know that they are robots either don't know what people are or what robots are.
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Replying to @Plinz
Yes, you're right, we're nothing more than just advanced carbon-based machines. But humans tend to cling to the idea of being more than just that. I guess that's the reason they invented the soul as a back door solution.
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Replying to @Dschingis_Hahn @Plinz
we “cling” to the idea of being more than machines because conscious experience is suffused with genuine meaning and value, concepts that reductive materialism seems unable to account for
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Yes, so it seems. But it is not hard to account for the fact that the nature of our meaning is what the inside of a feedback loop looks like.
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