• Perspectivist@feddit.uk
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      19 hours ago

      Same argument applies for consciousness as well, but I’m talking about general intelligence now.

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        15 hours ago

        Well I’m curious then, because I have never seen or heard or read that general intelligence would be needing some kind of wetware anywhere. Why would it? It’s just computations.

        I do have heard and read about consciousness potentially having that barrier though, but only as a potential problem, and if you want conscious robots ofc.

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          9 hours ago

          I don’t think it does, but it seems conceivable that it potentially could. Maybe there’s more to intelligence than just information processing - or maybe it’s tied to consciousness itself. I can’t imagine the added ability to have subjective experiences would hurt anyone’s intelligence, at least.