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Old 07-22-2014, 01:17 PM   #1402
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Default Re: Ghosts and Mind Copies - The Identity Question

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Originally Posted by tantric View Post
Frankly, I don't buy AI at all. They might be *useful* and even smart, but not aware.
I can't think of any thing that can support this, that doesn't also "prove" that humans aren't actually aware either. I'm fairly convinced that human consciousness, identity, whatever you want to call is an emergent property of a very complex system. I see no reason why a similar system composed of computer hardware and software can't generate an analogous emergent property, theoretically anyway.
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