What Douglas Hofstadter thinks about AI sentience
Cognitive scientist, born in 1945, whose Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) explored self-reference and "strange loops" as a key to minds and to artificial intelligence.
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1 dated position, c. 1979, in their own words. Our reading of what Douglas Hofstadter has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingFaultless computer hardware could still support confusion, forgetting or a sense of beauty
Their wordsThere is no reason to believe that a computer's faultlessly functioning hardware could not support high-level symbolic behavior which would represent such complex states as confusion, forgetting, or appreciation of beauty.
↗Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979)archive.org All 2 from this book