04-24-2024, 12:58 PM
Our problem right now is quite simple.
We have identified parts of the physiology of the brain which seem to correspond to conscious processes in our minds. We have also identified physiological processes and markers that seem to indicate functioning of sentience and consciousness...
... but we have not measured or described 'consciousness' itself. There is no unit of consciousness, no metric to describe it's presence. And it does seem foolishly arrogant to assume that all consciousness must conform to the exact same manner as it does in humans.
I think this debate is overdue because we are actively purporting to 'create synthetic consciousness' without have any useful handle on what that is in the first place.
We have identified parts of the physiology of the brain which seem to correspond to conscious processes in our minds. We have also identified physiological processes and markers that seem to indicate functioning of sentience and consciousness...
... but we have not measured or described 'consciousness' itself. There is no unit of consciousness, no metric to describe it's presence. And it does seem foolishly arrogant to assume that all consciousness must conform to the exact same manner as it does in humans.
I think this debate is overdue because we are actively purporting to 'create synthetic consciousness' without have any useful handle on what that is in the first place.
