Artificial Intelligence
In Our Time: Science
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Is There a Brain in a Machine?
When you've simulated or duplicated the brain, do you have something which is the brain, or have we created something other than? Well, you could create something other than in the sense of using a different causal mechanism. But what we're interested in is not that it does just an imitation of it, but that it actually produces the same causal effects. Now you ask about free will, and that's a hard one, because we don't know hwwe get our own free will,. Free will is a feature of a certain kind of human consciousness. And in order to produce that in a machine, we've got first understand how we could produce consciousness at all.
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