I agree and think consciousness as we know it is a red herring. I suspect it is but one type of OS for a general intelligence and not a particularly useful one.

I agree and think consciousness as we know it is a red herring. I suspect it is but one type of OS for a general intelligence and not a particularly useful one. We have a ton of trouble anthropomorphizing AI. We want it to be like US because being like is would validate our design. It’s not going to be like us. Honestly we probably won’t even recognize it at first.