In Buddhism teachings, a human has eight cognitions. The first five are related to our physical world: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch.
Then there are three related to our spiritual world. The sixth cognition is our thinking and emotions. This is where our repository of knowledge is located. All the human knowledge of philosophy, science, technology, arts belongs to the sixth cognition. This includes mental consciousness, sub-consciousness and these related concepts. Then the seventh and eighth senses are uniquely oriental and are near the core theory of Buddhism. The eighth sense is easier to explain than the seventh. The eighth sense is the “real-self”, or an inaccurate equivalent of “soul”, that’s the constant between incarnations, regardless one’s life takes the form of this human or that life being on earth. The seven sense can be roughly said as something between the sixth cognition - our day-to-day thinking - and the eighth cognition. The seventh cognition enables us to perform all the deep and thorough thinking at the sixth cognition level. Therefore, according to Buddhism teachings, AI may venture into the realm of the mental consciousness, but will never be able to reach the seventh and eighth cognition. And that seventh and eight cognition is what distinguishes a life being from a non life being. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 16, 2020, at 5:02 AM, Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 10:36:40 PM UTC-6, Beixiao Robert Liu wrote: >> Well, if the inquiry here concerns consciousness, then the question of >> whether a human should trust the AI, or whether the AI has the capacity to >> be trusted by a human, ought to be part of the inquiry, right? The movie >> listed others elements: compassion, sympathy, etc. I guess I was just using >> my wife’s off-the-cuff comment as a convenient way to suggest that Caleb >> might set the wrong threshold in his Turing test; and as a result, he gave a >> pass to the AI too easily, which later proved fatally wrong. > > Sorry. Maybe my comment was too flippant. I just don't think Caleb's mistake > in trusting the AI relates to whether the AI is conscious. AG >> >>>> On Aug 15, 2020, at 23:29, Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 7:54:35 PM UTC-6, Beixiao Robert Liu wrote: >>>> It’s available on YouTube. You could rent it for as little as $4, as long >>>> as you finish viewing it within 2 days once your start playing. >>>> >>>> Thanks for recommending it. I just viewed it. My wife said that it’s >>>> stupid for the boy to trust the AI girl, Ava, so he got what he deserved. >>> >>> Too funny! That's hardly the point. AG >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> > On Aug 15, 2020, at 21:26, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> >>>> > wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Alas not available on Netflix Australia. It'll have to wait until >>>> > if/when I subscribe to Amazon Prime briefly. >>>> > >>>> > I'm also not really prepared to purchase a VPN just to watch other >>>> > countries' Netflix connections, for much the same reason as I only >>>> > subscribe to one streamer - so it might have to wait until if/when I >>>> > do live in a country that has it in the Netflix catalogue. >>>> > >>>> > The tangled web of movie copyright arrangements... Bah! >>>> > >>>> >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 02:23:52PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote: >>>> >> If you haven't viewed it, please do so. It's about the Turing Test, >>>> >> science >>>> >> fiction, but the "special effects" aren't primarily photographic bells >>>> >> and >>>> >> whistles, but the dialogue. the text, the logic of the script. >>>> >> Recently, we >>>> >> have argued about consciousness, what it is, and how we can test for it >>>> >> in the >>>> >> context of AI. I claimed that we could do some superficial surgery to >>>> >> determine >>>> >> whether the subject of the test was a robot or a conscious entity. But >>>> >> this is >>>> >> completely mistaken. All that that would reveal is whether the subject >>>> >> was >>>> >> artificial, not whether it was "conscious". The subject could have been >>>> >> a black >>>> >> box, and still showing signs of what we can't really define; >>>> >> consciousness. I >>>> >> think Ex Machina provides an answer of what we need to look for. Please >>>> >> view it >>>> >> and report back. But do NOT read the plot, say in Wiki. 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