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> Regarding the 2nd question (and the 3rd) it just boils down to "what's consciousness exactly? Is it even knowable?" and I don't think anybody has an answer to
by sva_ 5y ago
> Regarding the 2nd question (and the 3rd) it just boils down to "what's consciousness exactly? Is it even knowable?" and I don't think anybody has an answer to that. My personal intuition is that it's unknowable.
You can't even know if anyone other than you is conscious. For all you know, the rest of us might all be robots being good at fooling you.
I think that if we achieve AGI, at some point there will be a division between people: Those who acknowledge them as living, feeling entities, and those who don't.
Just like even nowadays there are still people who feel about others (based on race, skin color, etc), that they're not really people.
- roenxi 5y ago> You can't even know if anyone other than you is conscious. Given that we can't define consciousness, even that might be implying more knowledge than someone can possess.
- mannykannot 5y ago> You can't even know if anyone other than you is conscious. This claim comes up quite often in these sorts of discussions, but it is very hard to maintain this level of skepticism, about the external world, consistently (to start with, do you believe any of your thoughts are about an external world?) To take this extremely skeptical position only about other peoples' minds would be quite tendentious.