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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8443083" data-attributes="member: 58172">Computers are expected to pass the Turing Test in this decade, the 2020s, likely around 2025.It is hard to believe when it hasnt happened yet. But the same disbelief happened when computer scientists were predicting that computers would defeat chess champions. It seemed inconceivable until it happened.By the end of this century, the expected events are beyond the current capacity of a human brain to predict. A computer is expected to be more intelligent than the current entire human species combined.I agree with you skepticism that the current computer technology can ever be &quot;alive&quot;.But computer processing will speed up neuroscience for us to understand how consciousness works. Then we will know how to enable it. (I have a moreorless mystical perspective, that consciousness is an ubiquitous universal principle, part of the Big Bang, that a physical brain is somehow able to utilize and participate in. I am confident, science will get a sense of where the &quot;seat of consciousness&quot; is.)In any case, D&amp;D &quot;magic&quot; scenarios are useful exercises to navigate our near future. These are thought experiments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8443083, member: 58172"] Computers are expected to pass the Turing Test in this decade, the 2020s, likely around 2025. It is hard to believe when it hasnt happened yet. But the same disbelief happened when computer scientists were predicting that computers would defeat chess champions. It seemed inconceivable until it happened. By the end of this century, the expected events are beyond the current capacity of a human brain to predict. A computer is expected to be more intelligent than the current entire human species combined. I agree with you skepticism that the current computer technology can ever be "alive". But computer processing will speed up neuroscience for us to understand how consciousness works. Then we will know how to enable it. (I have a moreorless mystical perspective, that consciousness is an ubiquitous universal principle, part of the Big Bang, that a physical brain is somehow able to utilize and participate in. I am confident, science will get a sense of where the "seat of consciousness" is.) In any case, D&D "magic" scenarios are useful exercises to navigate our near future. These are thought experiments. [/QUOTE]

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