On: Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Comput...

[deepnotderp]

Believe me, the tensors are not feeling pain.

[aeorgnoieang → deepnotderp]

Sure, but then neither are neurons.

[greenshackle2 → deepnotderp]

I'm not talking about current machine learning algorithms, but speculative future developments where we could be developing AIs that are plausibly conscious.

[tmail21 → deepnotderp]

How do you know for sure? :)

[21 → deepnotderp]

Neurons don't feel pain either.

In fact, the whole brain doesn't have pain receptors, which is why you can do surgery on it while the patient is awake.

[shostack → 21]

So what is the concept of pain then from the brains perspective? Because it clearly knows when something hurts.