its very simple to be a conscious entity you have to not only be self aware.. meaning you realize you are here .. no no no you have to have so many more things to really be considered by humans to be consciousness..
lets have a thought experiment .. you have the ability to be aware of yourself .. lets say in the sense of a computer knowing that it is turned on, it knows everything that its bios knows.. clock speed how big its hardrive is infact it could even be aware of what is inside its hardrive .. this is probably not that hard to code and i believe there are programmers who would know how to program that .. its basically a feedback loop isnt it ?
but so what if it is aware of its own 'state' (how it is doing at the time) or even if it can contain memories of previous states ..
if it has no emotions or goals it is useless ..
if it has no commonsense or critical thinking or abstract thinking .. it would be considered less than an animal .. (animals could possibly have these eg hunting strategies for evading hunters .. dreaming?, being able to catch a ball requires a certain mathematical common sense)
no what consciousness really is , is a very very complex array of abilities that culminate into a consciousness..
consciousness is an emergent phenomenon from the complexity of years of evolution adding little bit by little bit.
and i think in order to create ai we need to be able to fully categorize all the 'abilities' of the brain from all the different forms of memories to all the different cognitive abilities ..
its not enough just to slice open a brain you need to be able to see what it is doing ..
and furthermore there is no soul
even if there was i believe that if they create complex enough ai you wouldnt be able to tell the difference anyway .. and then you would treat ai as if they had a soul .. and in a sense then .. they would have a soul now wouldnt they ?
-dolphin looking at cavepeople
lets have a thought experiment .. you have the ability to be aware of yourself .. lets say in the sense of a computer knowing that it is turned on, it knows everything that its bios knows.. clock speed how big its hardrive is infact it could even be aware of what is inside its hardrive .. this is probably not that hard to code and i believe there are programmers who would know how to program that .. its basically a feedback loop isnt it ?
but so what if it is aware of its own 'state' (how it is doing at the time) or even if it can contain memories of previous states ..
if it has no emotions or goals it is useless ..
if it has no commonsense or critical thinking or abstract thinking .. it would be considered less than an animal .. (animals could possibly have these eg hunting strategies for evading hunters .. dreaming?, being able to catch a ball requires a certain mathematical common sense)
no what consciousness really is , is a very very complex array of abilities that culminate into a consciousness..
consciousness is an emergent phenomenon from the complexity of years of evolution adding little bit by little bit.
and i think in order to create ai we need to be able to fully categorize all the 'abilities' of the brain from all the different forms of memories to all the different cognitive abilities ..
its not enough just to slice open a brain you need to be able to see what it is doing ..
and furthermore there is no soul
even if there was i believe that if they create complex enough ai you wouldnt be able to tell the difference anyway .. and then you would treat ai as if they had a soul .. and in a sense then .. they would have a soul now wouldnt they ?
-dolphin looking at cavepeople