A lot of AI-is-conscious ppl got one-shot by the unimportance of a carbon-based substrate and forgot there’s a lot else going on in embodied organisms that might be a pre-requisite for morally weighty subjectivity beyond the kind of stochastic problem solving ant colonies perform
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substance 6 · argument · rank 183 · Embodied organisms have prerequisites for moral subjectivity that AI lacks beyond stochastic problem-solving.
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There is a lot, but other features are also replicable by other means. Chemistry is multiply realizable for instance, a single molecule can have many different kinds reaction paths to create it. Abstract features like “self repair” are also plausibly replicable by something