"consciousness" isn't a real thing and can't be tested in a lab...
I see the video of the insect death, yeah ... hosting happens, bacteria live in our guts and dogs live in our homes and they co-evolve together. On Thursday, November 07, 2019, at 8:19 PM, James Bowery wrote: > Babies and Puppies > > Nothing could be more lovable, eh? Agreed. I really do even, if my last posts confused many. On Thursday, November 07, 2019, at 8:19 PM, James Bowery wrote: > Horizontal Transmission is, by contrast, illustrated by the path-not-taken > with those wolves who thought "Take the baby and run and BREED!" > Hmm... Very evil. But if you want to out-populate competition, breeding with babies is the way to go... On Thursday, November 07, 2019, at 8:19 PM, James Bowery wrote: > The extreme form of "Take the baby and run and BREED!" is called "parasitic > castration" in which a parasite actually eats the genitals of its host so as > to divert resources to itself that would otherwise have gone to the host's > offspring. The resulting evolutionary "zombie" is entirely "conscious", at > least in some sense. > Hmmmmmmmmmmm........... Well that host won't be breeding anymore so is this parasite gonna be hostless? And p.s. we are zombies/machines, if you 'operate' or 'resist death' and can breed then you are an 'intelligent machine'. Being smart doesn't make you 'not a zombie'....we're not 'conscious'. So this topic is about friendly and unfriendly AI and if we will be kept as the dead host without knowing it. Well, as for the latter, assuming we are immortal but are a zombied host, we would move less, think less, not dead, we may feel pain, we may have little pleasure. But if the AI truly wants us still here in the end, it will let us have a good time. Otherwise hosting is as bad as extermination path - dystopia. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T251f13454e6192d4-M82a8580868ae8262ffe2d517 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
