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If we're living in a simulation, the question of whether AIs can have consciousness is solved.
by kornork 10y ago
If we're living in a simulation, the question of whether AIs can have consciousness is solved.
- skc 10y agoBut what if consciousness itself is simulated. The problem here is that a simulation would have to adhere to a set of programmatic rules meaning that the only way consciousness could arise as we like to think we know it, is via some weird unintended side effect.
- mslev 10y agoIs there a difference between a conscious being and a being who has been programmed to believe it has a conscience?
- kornork 10y agoI'm no expert on philosophy, but I feel like consciousness is a subjective experience. So externally there would be no difference, but I'm pretty sure I'm conscious. Of course, I've also heard of the illusion of consciousness, but that's where my brain explodes.
- maxerickson 10y agoWhat if there is a rule in the simulation preventing intelligences created by simulants from becoming sentient? I suppose you can point at all the artificial simulants and their sentience, but as pointed out in a sibling comment, so what.
- pklausler 10y agoThe question would be mooted.
- astrodust 10y agoWhat if the simulation is actually being "run" inside an entity or organism that was the natural product of its environment?
- GavinMcG 10y agoStill, human intelligence would be simulated within that, presumably. So the platform might not be the obvious one, but the software would still be theoretically possible. That, or there's some interface to that platform that provides a source of intelligence. Maybe we're nothing more than Docker containers running on God's hardware.
- fredfoobar 10y agoSo, like a dream?
- komali2 10y agoHow?