Once they start integrating actual brain matter into machines, maybe. But IDK if that would necessarily answer the question of if a machine could develop consciousness, like as in just silicon alone. Is it a machine if it’s just a lab-grown brain attached to electronics? 🤔
I am skeptical that silicon alone would ever develop consciousness, personally.
They do have those computers that use brain cells, I believe it’s called ‘wetware’. They’re trying to see if it’ll be a cheaper alternative to AI. I just feel bad for the brains.
I don’t know if I should feel any more than an insect or other animal. The brain matter isn’t like taking an actual animal’s brain and making it a computer; they’re growing synapses in a lab so even if they were conscious, I feel like it wouldn’t be much different to them as anything else that has always been that thing. Like they wouldn’t have any more of an existential crisis being a computer than we do about living in our own bodies.
Now if they grew sapience that might be something to empathize with.
Once they start integrating actual brain matter into machines, maybe. But IDK if that would necessarily answer the question of if a machine could develop consciousness, like as in just silicon alone. Is it a machine if it’s just a lab-grown brain attached to electronics? 🤔
I am skeptical that silicon alone would ever develop consciousness, personally.
They do have those computers that use brain cells, I believe it’s called ‘wetware’. They’re trying to see if it’ll be a cheaper alternative to AI. I just feel bad for the brains.
I don’t know if I should feel any more than an insect or other animal. The brain matter isn’t like taking an actual animal’s brain and making it a computer; they’re growing synapses in a lab so even if they were conscious, I feel like it wouldn’t be much different to them as anything else that has always been that thing. Like they wouldn’t have any more of an existential crisis being a computer than we do about living in our own bodies.
Now if they grew sapience that might be something to empathize with.