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2015 Question: What do you think about machines that think?

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2015 Question: What do you think about machines that think?

186 smart people have answered this year’s Edge question: What do you think about machines that think? I can’t say I’ve read them all (due to imminent head explosion threat), but those that I’ve read, make for great discussion starters. Especially liked Thomas Metzinger’s argument that only the ability to suffer allows for substantial thinking.


From Weekly Filet #192, in January 2015. More on:

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