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- Subject: BOOK: Consciousness Explained
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.074851.9150@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 21:07:43 GMT
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- In Daniel Dennett's book COnsciousness Explained, he claims that human beings
- will never be fooled by computers, no matter how powerful those computers
- eventually become. This seems unrealistic? Therefore, if we assume that
- eventually computers will be capable of providing virtual worlds which can
- include interactions which fool the human beings interacting in the world,
- what would be the ethics involved in such a situation? Under what circumstances
- should a virtual world be established which provides incorrect experiences
- to human beings who use it when those humans cannot determine that the experienc
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- are incorrect? Further, if the virtual world is sufficiently detailed, how
- will humans be able to distinguish what they do in that world from what they
- do in the "real" world?
- Will it matter that they cannot?
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