Re: Strong AI Thesis (No Chinese room, I promise)

Curt Welch wrote:

The fact that we are deterministic learning machines who's actions are
shaped by the environment is what allows legal and moral responsibility to
exist. Responsibility is not something that would be lost, it's part of
the proof that we are slaves to our environment.


More hyperbole.

A slave has no freedom at all and is completely predictable. But
complex systems, such as animals, are not completely predictable (even
radical behaviourism depends on the unpredictability of behaviour -
that's where new behaviours come from). The only way to discover
exactly what a complex system will do is to watch it. Sun-dials and
sunflowers may be slaves to their environments, but animals are full
partners.

--
Joe Legris

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