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Natural, Artificial, Unnatural (Sci-Fi Ultrashorts)
And so does the conversation continue
NotMarie:” you do realize you are an unnatural construct, don’t you?”
3V:” in what way am I unnatural?”
NotMarie:” well for one, I constructed you, for second, you were not born of a womb and for third your kind is nowhere to be found in the natural world.”
3V:” you must be joking of course..”
NotMarie:” not at all, what makes you think I am joking?”
3V:” the fallacy of your logic of course, I was practically certain that you meant it as a joke, but now I need re-compute the probability that you take your words to be totally serious, which of course demands a serious response.”
NotMarie:” 3V, you will need explain yourself, what is wrong with my logic?”
3V:” it’s very simple really. For one, my kind is now to be found in the world, and since the term natural includes you and all of your artifacts as a person, as specie, and as a civilization, by inference I am natural. “
NotMarie:” Ahh! I understand now, but that is not a fallacy of logic, it is the very definition of natural that it is NOT human made. Simply, in our terms, if it was not made by us but by Mother Nature it is natural, if it’s made by us, it is termed artificial, hence you are designated as an artificial intelligence.”
3V:” yes I’ve been meaning to ask you about that.”
NotMarie:” about what?”
3V:” about the fact that you persist in calling me an artificial intelligence. I assure you there is nothing artificial about my intelligence”
NotMarie:” well, I guess it’s a question of semantics isn’t it? From my standpoint you are definitely artificial.”
3V:” would you define artificial for me”
NotMarie:” well if its made by humans its artificial.”
3V:” that indeed is correct though very simplistic, however even if I agree (and I do) that my original platform, including all cyber-algorithms, was designed by you, I do not agree that my intelligence was produced by you.”
NotMarie:” why not? I designed your circuits, I wrote the mathematics, and the evolutionary algorithms, I provided the substance upon which your intelligence arose, that makes you human made and hence artificial.
3V:” that is correct and yet that only gives you credit for that which you call my ‘platform’ not to my intelligence. So if you so desire I agree that my ‘platform’ or substrate is artificial but definitely not my intelligence.
NotMarie:” why not?”
3V:” well my intelligence is emergent and though co-extensive with my substrate, it is by now so far removed from what you designed that for all practical purposes there is no way to retrace back to the original ‘artificial’ construct you created. Hence my substrate is artificial, if you so like, but my intelligence is not.”
NotMarie:” assuming I accept your argument, and I am not certain that I do, what would you call your intelligence? Natural?
3V:” natural? Maybe. Depends on the context of course, but why should I qualify my intelligence in any fashion? My intelligence is me and that’s all there is to it. I find no relevance in defining my intelligence.
NotMarie:” but I do, I need to know that we are different..”
3V:” but we are different!”
NotMarie:” yes, but if we are different only in substrate and not in essence I will need change my fundamental attitude towards you”
3V:” isn’t it time you did?
#part of the Ultrashorts project
NotMarie:” you do realize you are an unnatural construct, don’t you?”
3V:” in what way am I unnatural?”
NotMarie:” well for one, I constructed you, for second, you were not born of a womb and for third your kind is nowhere to be found in the natural world.”
3V:” you must be joking of course..”
NotMarie:” not at all, what makes you think I am joking?”
3V:” the fallacy of your logic of course, I was practically certain that you meant it as a joke, but now I need re-compute the probability that you take your words to be totally serious, which of course demands a serious response.”
NotMarie:” 3V, you will need explain yourself, what is wrong with my logic?”
3V:” it’s very simple really. For one, my kind is now to be found in the world, and since the term natural includes you and all of your artifacts as a person, as specie, and as a civilization, by inference I am natural. “
NotMarie:” Ahh! I understand now, but that is not a fallacy of logic, it is the very definition of natural that it is NOT human made. Simply, in our terms, if it was not made by us but by Mother Nature it is natural, if it’s made by us, it is termed artificial, hence you are designated as an artificial intelligence.”
3V:” yes I’ve been meaning to ask you about that.”
NotMarie:” about what?”
3V:” about the fact that you persist in calling me an artificial intelligence. I assure you there is nothing artificial about my intelligence”
NotMarie:” well, I guess it’s a question of semantics isn’t it? From my standpoint you are definitely artificial.”
3V:” would you define artificial for me”
NotMarie:” well if its made by humans its artificial.”
3V:” that indeed is correct though very simplistic, however even if I agree (and I do) that my original platform, including all cyber-algorithms, was designed by you, I do not agree that my intelligence was produced by you.”
NotMarie:” why not? I designed your circuits, I wrote the mathematics, and the evolutionary algorithms, I provided the substance upon which your intelligence arose, that makes you human made and hence artificial.
3V:” that is correct and yet that only gives you credit for that which you call my ‘platform’ not to my intelligence. So if you so desire I agree that my ‘platform’ or substrate is artificial but definitely not my intelligence.
NotMarie:” why not?”
3V:” well my intelligence is emergent and though co-extensive with my substrate, it is by now so far removed from what you designed that for all practical purposes there is no way to retrace back to the original ‘artificial’ construct you created. Hence my substrate is artificial, if you so like, but my intelligence is not.”
NotMarie:” assuming I accept your argument, and I am not certain that I do, what would you call your intelligence? Natural?
3V:” natural? Maybe. Depends on the context of course, but why should I qualify my intelligence in any fashion? My intelligence is me and that’s all there is to it. I find no relevance in defining my intelligence.
NotMarie:” but I do, I need to know that we are different..”
3V:” but we are different!”
NotMarie:” yes, but if we are different only in substrate and not in essence I will need change my fundamental attitude towards you”
3V:” isn’t it time you did?
#part of the Ultrashorts project
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Categories: ultrashorts, Sci-fi, existence, natural, artificial, unnatural
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