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myusernamehere1 t1_j352wrq wrote

Reply to comment by ChronoPsyche in I asked ChatGPT if it is sentient, and I can't really argue with its point by wtfcommittee

Sentience is the ability to have "feelings". These do not have to be similar to the feelings us humans understand, they could be entirely alien to our experiential capabilities. The ability to interpret text prompts could be a sort of sensory modality. And id argue that way the human brain operates can be abstracted to a complex "probability model". It is very possible that consciousness itself is "simply" an emergent property of complex information processing.

Have you seen the paper where a researcher hooked up a rat brain organoid to a (in simple terms) brain chip, and taught it to fly a plane in a 3d simulated environment? Or, more recently, a human brain organoid was taught to play pong? These organoids had no ability to sense their environment either, and both may very well have some limited level of sentience/consciousness.

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ChronoPsyche t1_j353a24 wrote

Nothing you're saying is relevant. Anything could be possible, but that isn't an argument against my claims. My keyboard could have strange alien sensory modalities that we don't understand. That doesn't make it likely.

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myusernamehere1 t1_j354tls wrote

Well, i disagree with everything you just said and find the keyboard analogy humorously off-target. My argument is not "anything is possible."

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ChronoPsyche t1_j355cjq wrote

What is your argument then? You haven't actually stated an argument, you've just told me mine is wrong.

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myusernamehere1 t1_j355jto wrote

My argument is that your arguments arent valid lol

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ChronoPsyche t1_j355vbk wrote

"I agree with your conclusion but I just thought id point out that your arguments are bad". Lol that's rather pedantic but okay. You do you.

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myusernamehere1 t1_j356iy7 wrote

Well, i saw a bad argument (or a few) and i pointed it out and explained my reasoning. Not sure why thats a bad thing, i think it promotes educated discourse.

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