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If it has a (recursive?) model of itself and a sensory input representing its operation, I would argue it's conscious. For instance, I believe computers are con
by FeepingCreature 6y ago
If it has a (recursive?) model of itself and a sensory input representing its operation, I would argue it's conscious. For instance, I believe computers are conscious in this sense; not in the sense that anything that computes is conscious but in the sense that `top` (or the Windows Task Manager) fulfills many of the listed traits - self-awareness, self-modelling, discrimination. Of course, computers can't actually do nearly as much as we can with their consciousness, but that's a question of skills that are not themselves consciousness.
For the closest example, I think there's probably something it is to be like the Linux OOM killer.