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A person suffering from amnesia is still experiencing the world around them. Sentience is not about memory but rather the subjective self-experience of, well, e
by danadannecy 4y ago
A person suffering from amnesia is still experiencing the world around them. Sentience is not about memory but rather the subjective self-experience of, well, experiencing things.
- plutonorm 4y agoAnd why would this sense of experience be confined to the physical world?
- danadannecy 4y agoI'm not sure what you're asking here. I have no clue where this sense of experience would be located, but my point was more targeted at clearing up that memory is not a pre-requisite for sentience, as the parent post seemed to be implying.
- plutonorm 4y agosorry replied to the wrong person. I was arguing that even an abstract data structure describing the state of a brain over time as it experiences is itself sentient. GPT-3 et al is essentially crystallised experience. Lots of snapshots of peoples consciousness rolled into a set of neural network weights. Just as we are essentially a bag of experiences, moving from one experience to another, as we are prompted by internal or external stimuli.
- perpetuummobile 4y agoSubjective self experience is mediated through chemicals and electrical signals in the brain. Can the same not be said about a neural network’s activations? Can’t LaMDA be experiencing the memories it recalls as it generates text in the context of its query?