philosophy, people as algorithms
There's actually this ponder I've had since I read Chobits as a wee little thing: given the ability to access infinite computing power, can you write an algorithm that can simulate a consciousness, and if you can can you write a generic algorithm that can simulate _any_ consciousness given a large enough array of input variables?
This ponder got validated in, of all odd places, Axiom Verge where the entire base premise is "Any reality is a set of rules and a starting variable set; for any variable set, a resulting reality is valid and can be presumed to exist".
The question is is that axiom equally valid when considering a person: is there a "personhood" algorithm that could end-result in everyone on earth if the input corpus was correct, or would each person need a custom-tailored algorithm?
Which starts to boil down "Are we data or are we code?" and that gets real uncanny valley.
This ponder got validated in, of all odd places, Axiom Verge where the entire base premise is "Any reality is a set of rules and a starting variable set; for any variable set, a resulting reality is valid and can be presumed to exist".
The question is is that axiom equally valid when considering a person: is there a "personhood" algorithm that could end-result in everyone on earth if the input corpus was correct, or would each person need a custom-tailored algorithm?
Which starts to boil down "Are we data or are we code?" and that gets real uncanny valley.
