Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy
Quote Originally Posted by kevster

I'm not sure this is really true. Lifeforms of this type operate purely at a cellular level where everything is instinct. Surely this is different from AI programmed bots.
They may not be as different as they seem. Our reasoned processes are chemical reactions just like our instinctive ones, they're just more complex chemical reactions. The distinction between instinctive action and reasoned action is also a misleading distinction. It is possible that reason itself is instinct, we just comprehend this differently due to perspective.
I completely get this but there are many life forms who've been around for millions of years and can't reason in the same way we can, so I struggle to grasp how AI bots are going to do this.