realisability

English

Etymology

realise +‎ -ability

Noun

realisability (countable and uncountable, plural realisabilities)

  1. Alternative spelling of realizability
    • 2017, Jordan Erica Webber, Daniel Griliopoulos, “Philosophy of mind”, in Ten Things Video Games can Teach Us‎, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110:
      Artificial intelligence in the Mass Effect universe does not mimic humanity like Fallout 4’s synths. Instead, the Geth are another alien race, just a synthetic one, created by the Quarians. In the Mass Effect universe, consciousness has multiple realisability: it's realised in humans, the mono-gendered Asari, the jellyfish-like Hanar, the dual-hearted Krogan and — if you believe that a machine can be conscious — the robotic Geth.
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