Do you think machine consciousness is possible?
jacquesm: There have been many threads recently about this exact theme, http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+a...
should turn up some results.My personal take on this is that I'm really not sure.There are some pretty clever people here that are sure it is possible, 20 years or less.There are others (of which I'm one) that think it may be possible but either devilishly hard compared to what has been achieved to date or beyond our abilities, figure at least 20 years, probably much more, if ever.And then there are those that think that it is impossible.I'm an absolute nobody when it comes to stuff like this but it interests me greatly. When I was 15 or so I envisioned a world about 2 decades away where computers could be taught. We're 30 years down the line from that point and we're still programming computers more or less the same as back then.But that does not mean that things can't change overnight, and who knows, maybe you're just the guy for the ticket and you will be the one to crack this nut.