It's questionable whether any being can know what another being perceives (or even if the other being perceives at all). Whether machines "perceive" and what it is they "perceive" (if they do "perceive" at all) is even more questionable.
Some have even questioned whether even the individual self perceives, and the very existence of a self and of minds, etc.
You don't have to be a crackpot to entertain such ideas. You just have to be interested in philosophy (or religion, as the Hindus came up with the idea that the entire world is illusory... many thousands of years ago).
> You don't have to be a crackpot to entertain such ideas. You just have to be interested in philosophy (or religion, as the Hindus came up with the idea that the entire world is illusory... many thousands of years ago).
I agree, but you can't claim to be doing physics at the same time.
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It's questionable whether any being can know what another being perceives (or even if the other being perceives at all). Whether machines "perceive" and what it is they "perceive" (if they do "perceive" at all) is even more questionable.
Some have even questioned whether even the individual self perceives, and the very existence of a self and of minds, etc.
You don't have to be a crackpot to entertain such ideas. You just have to be interested in philosophy (or religion, as the Hindus came up with the idea that the entire world is illusory... many thousands of years ago).
> You don't have to be a crackpot to entertain such ideas. You just have to be interested in philosophy (or religion, as the Hindus came up with the idea that the entire world is illusory... many thousands of years ago).
I agree, but you can't claim to be doing physics at the same time.