#it's all comes back to like esoteric poetry and the tao te ching verse 50

[wandringaesthetic]

Realized my "an actual artificial intelligence might be impossible because computers can't feel pain/pleasure and can't touch grass" intuition is basically The Chinese Room argument. It's the Chinese Room Argument.

And some of the refutations of that are like "well, then you can never really prove whether another person is experiencing consciousness or not, right?" "Maybe YOU don't really have intentionality. Maybe it is YOU that cannot touch grass. Maybe YOU'RE a shitty computer program." and I mean. Yeah. You're right. You're right. We come into this world alone, we go out of this world alone. My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love. All that. We don't actually understand consciousness and can't reliably recognize or even define it. We cannot prove that other people's experiences are similar to our own. This is true.

However.

Dhbrbrjjrjdjbshsh

Touch grass. That one "Fool that you are..." Mickey mouse comic. Etc.