Designing consciousness

[goldenecitrone]

your silly babies-and-meat-eating arguments just slide off me like hot butter on the arse of Bernard Manning.

Thanks for that image. )-:

 

[fudgefactorfive]

i should have said "like hot butter sliding off the cold, dead arse of Bernard Manning"

if i were a computer maybe i would've

 

[8ball]

If you were to construct an 'artificial consciousness', what features would you give it in order to demonstrate consciousness/self-awareness/sentience?

10 PRINT "I HAS CONSHUSSNUSS LOLLLL!!!!1!!11!"
20 CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
30 KTHXBAI

 

[Demosthenes]

If there's any programmers about, someone should archive pbman's choice lines, and try to make a pb bot.

the problem is doing a meaningful enough interpretation of real people's posts that it could choose an appropriate response from the archive.

 

[Aldebaran]

That'd be Peter Singer: Australian, currently at Princeton in the US.

Oh God. Princeton infected by self-conscious advertisers. What has the world become?

salaam.

 

[Fruitloop]

the problem is doing a meaningful enough interpretation of real people's posts that it could choose an appropriate response from the archive.

It never seemed to bother peebs

 

[kyser_soze]

If there's any programmers about, someone should archive pbman's choice lines, and try to make a pb bot.

the problem is doing a meaningful enough interpretation of real people's posts that it could choose an appropriate response from the archive.

10 PRINT "Bush is good. There is no global warming. The war in Iraq is justified. Guns are great':
20 GOTO 10

That should be about enough.

 

[obanite]

Syntax error!