To be asked to choose anyone in the whole world opens a pathway to endless opportunities.
At first, I would have said that the obvious choice would be Albert Camus. I love his book, The Stranger, and I generally follow his thoughts that life might not have meaning, but we must continue like there is because struggle is fulfilling in of itself.
However, I cannot learn fully if I agree with basically all of what he says.
Then, I thought of John Searle, a notable philosopher who argued that machines can never be conscious in the way animals are, which is something I disagree with. If both brain and hardware are made of the atoms we know, I don’t understand why consciousness cannot be achieved by humans and computers alike.
Even so, I realize
At first, I would have said that the obvious choice would be Albert Camus. I love his book, The Stranger, and I generally follow his thoughts that life might not have meaning, but we must continue like there is because struggle is fulfilling in of itself.
However, I cannot learn fully if I agree with basically all of what he says.
Then, I thought of John Searle, a notable philosopher who argued that machines can never be conscious in the way animals are, which is something I disagree with. If both brain and hardware are made of the atoms we know, I don’t understand why consciousness cannot be achieved by humans and computers alike.
Even so, I realize