自我隧道

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• Imagine that we have created a society of robots. They would lack freedom of the will in the traditional sense, because they are causally determined automata. But they would have conscious models of themselves and of other automata in their environment, and these models would let them interact with others and control their own behavior. Imagine that we now add two features to their internal self- and other-person models: first, the erroneous belief that they (and everybody else) are responsible for their own actions; second, an “ideal observer” representing group interests, such as rules of fairness for reciprocal, altruistic interactions. What would this change? Would our robots develop new causal properties just by falsely believing in their own freedom of the will? The answer is yes; mo... (查看原文)

  元非 1赞 2016-08-25 16:03:21

• As we have seen, false awakenings can happen to all of us. This brings up another classical philosophical problem, the issue of solipsism (from Latin: solus, alone, and ipse, self). How, exactly, can I refute the skeptical hypothesis that my mind is the only thing that I know to exist? How can I exclude the possibility that the external world—and other conscious minds in particular—cannot be known and might not exist at all? Finally, here is a little thought experiment in applied tunnel epistemology, introduced and illustrated by a lucid dream reported by the late German dream researcher Paul Tholey:I briefly looked back. The person following me did not look like an ordinary human being; he was as tall as a giant and reminded me of Rübezahl [a mountain spirit in German legend]. Now it was... (查看原文)

  元非 2016-08-15 17:10:00