[LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

[JanW]

At 03:06 PM 27/07/2016, Jim Birch wrote:

>Maybe in your case.  My cat is certainly conscious - i.e. aware of and
>responding to it's surroundings - but doesn't do a lot of symbols. 

We were discussing this very thing yesterday --- sapient versus sentient. Animals are sentient. Humans are sapient as well.

Machines - not so much. Although IBM is working on one.

Jan


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