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I'm not quite sure I'm following you, sorry. > Did I create a second consciousness in my mind called ChatJ? Or where does it live? If you executed the same co

I'm not quite sure I'm following you, sorry. > Did I create a second consciousness in my mind called ChatJ? Or where does it live? If you executed the same computation that would give rise to consciousness in another substrate, then I would argue you created consciousness, yes. I don't think that consciousness is a thing you could point at but it's a property of this kind of computation. In the same way that "addition" does not live anywhere but is a property of a specific computation. > And I obviously made it cry, who did I abuse here? You didn't make it cry - the textual output just stated so. But if we had reason to believe that you induced a state of suffering here, you would have abused this instance of consciousness. And I don't think it's off track to think about the ethical implications of this, then. By the way, I don't argue that ChatGPT is conscious or has emotional states. My argument is a general one.

Jensson 4y ago
But that falls in another way. The computation that runs me did once run a monkey, but the consciousness in me don't remember being anything but me, it doesn't remember being a monkey. So computations aren't the same kind of consciousness as us, they might be conscious in another way, but they aren't what most people mean when they talk about consciousness, so you making up your own definition will just cause confusion. A process without memory might be conscious in some way, but it can't be conscious in the same way we are.
- s_weber 4y ago
  Memory - in my opinion - is not something that's inherent to consciousness. Rather, it is just another input that can be used by the computation. I don't think I came up with my own definition here. What I am talking about is the ability to have a qualitative experience. That it feels like something to exist. I concur that the experience of an AI would substantially differ from ours (e.g. because we have access to memory). But this fact alone can't free us from thinking about ethical implications of our actions. Many animals probably have a substantially different experience as well. Yet, I would argue, we should strive to minimize imparting suffering on them if they are able to experience it.
- mlatu 4y ago
  > A process without memory might be conscious in some way, but it can't be conscious in the same way we are. yo, ever heard about dementia? also, the web already can function as "their" memory via websearches. i.e. users submit most ridiculous responses on the internet and sidney can thus find them and its own other sessions

Jensson 4y ago

But that falls in another way. The computation that runs me did once run a monkey, but the consciousness in me don't remember being anything but me, it doesn't remember being a monkey. So computations aren't the same kind of consciousness as us, they might be conscious in another way, but they aren't what most people mean when they talk about consciousness, so you making up your own definition will just cause confusion. A process without memory might be conscious in some way, but it can't be conscious in the same way we are.

s_weber 4y ago
Memory - in my opinion - is not something that's inherent to consciousness. Rather, it is just another input that can be used by the computation. I don't think I came up with my own definition here. What I am talking about is the ability to have a qualitative experience. That it feels like something to exist. I concur that the experience of an AI would substantially differ from ours (e.g. because we have access to memory). But this fact alone can't free us from thinking about ethical implications of our actions. Many animals probably have a substantially different experience as well. Yet, I would argue, we should strive to minimize imparting suffering on them if they are able to experience it.
mlatu 4y ago
> A process without memory might be conscious in some way, but it can't be conscious in the same way we are. yo, ever heard about dementia? also, the web already can function as "their" memory via websearches. i.e. users submit most ridiculous responses on the internet and sidney can thus find them and its own other sessions