presoak@lazysoci.al to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoIf an AI simulation of your dead grandmother is indistinguishable from the real thing, is that literally a ghost?message-squaremessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareIf an AI simulation of your dead grandmother is indistinguishable from the real thing, is that literally a ghost?presoak@lazysoci.al to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square17linkfedilink
minus-squarepresoak@lazysoci.alOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 months agoConsider your favorite videogame. Thus you, the player, control your avatar. Would you say that you are present within the game or not? Does such a channel of control from outside the gameworld into the gameworld constitute presence? If the AI was the avatar, it’s of the world but also not. It is maybe the presence of an outworld entity. Have some of its behavior depend on a true rng. Electron noise or whatever. Thus de-deterministic it. Now you have an ouija board with a personality
minus-squarevillage604@adultswim.fanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoControlling an avatar quite literally means you’re not present.
Consider your favorite videogame. Thus you, the player, control your avatar.
Would you say that you are present within the game or not?
Does such a channel of control from outside the gameworld into the gameworld constitute presence?
If the AI was the avatar, it’s of the world but also not. It is maybe the presence of an outworld entity.
Have some of its behavior depend on a true rng. Electron noise or whatever. Thus de-deterministic it. Now you have an ouija board with a personality
Controlling an avatar quite literally means you’re not present.
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You don’t read much scifi do you