What's your take on a) The Chinese room though experiment and b) the Theseus Paradox when it is applied to individually replacing neurons with circuits, as proposed by Penrose?
What's your take on a) The Chinese room though experiment and b) the Theseus Paradox when it is applied to individually replacing neurons with circuits, as proposed by Penrose?
In the case of a) it demonstrates that being conscience is not equal to being able to communicate with someone. These concerns were also raised in the paper by Turing.
I had to google the Theseus Paradox. :P In the case of b) I don't think it is possible to re-create a specific human being since quantum mechanics forbids us to copy something exactly. But my opinion is that you can create a close copy of a human brain. So then there is no paradox present.