“Her” Computer Consciousness: Can an Artificial Intelligence Be In Love?

The 2013 movie Her, for which Spike Jonze, won an Oscar for best screenplay, raises the question whether one day soon there could be artificial, machine based, consciousness.

Mitchell's Memo on Ford and Kavenaugh

“A ‘he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that…I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the Committee.”

That may well be right that the evidence currently in the hands of the Committee would not be sufficient for a prosecutor to conclude that Kavenaugh is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. This, however, is irrelevant.