We do in fact feel many desires like that, e.g. the desire to remove certain unneeded materials from our bodies, and other such things. The reason you don’t have a specific desire to extract ammonia is that you don’t have a specific feeling for that; if you did have a specific feeling, it would be a desire specifically to extract ammonia, just like you specifically desire the actions I mentioned in the first part of this comment, and just as you can have the specific desire for sex.
I feel we are talking past each other, because reading the comment above I’m totally confused about what question you’re answering...
Let me rephrase my question: if I substitute one of the parts of an AI with an inequivalent part, say a kidney with a solar cell, will its desires change or not?
Let me respond with another question: if I substitute one of the parts of a human being an inequivalent part, say the nutritional system so that it lives on rocks instead of food, will the human’s desires change or not?
Yes, they will, because they will desire to eat rocks instead of what they were eating before.
We do in fact feel many desires like that, e.g. the desire to remove certain unneeded materials from our bodies, and other such things. The reason you don’t have a specific desire to extract ammonia is that you don’t have a specific feeling for that; if you did have a specific feeling, it would be a desire specifically to extract ammonia, just like you specifically desire the actions I mentioned in the first part of this comment, and just as you can have the specific desire for sex.
I feel we are talking past each other, because reading the comment above I’m totally confused about what question you’re answering...
Let me rephrase my question: if I substitute one of the parts of an AI with an inequivalent part, say a kidney with a solar cell, will its desires change or not?
Let me respond with another question: if I substitute one of the parts of a human being an inequivalent part, say the nutritional system so that it lives on rocks instead of food, will the human’s desires change or not?
Yes, they will, because they will desire to eat rocks instead of what they were eating before.
The same with the AI.