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In your book, what would it take for something other than a human or animal to demonstrate consciousness?
by fooker 3y ago
In your book, what would it take for something other than a human or animal to demonstrate consciousness?
- michaelmrose 3y agoI would be tempted to imagine it might be conscious if it merely acted as if it had motive and a model of the world. At first blush chatGPT seems conscious for instance.
- fooker 3y agoI think by that definition you can argue that all the entities I mentioned in my original comment are conscious. There is no way to quantify how expressive your model of the world has to be, or what mechanisms you have to act. For example, a single neuron in an artificial neural network has a model of the world (it's weight), and can act by producing different outputs for different inputs.
- michaelmrose 3y agoI think it means that consciousness isn't anything terrifically special and that human level consciousness is just something along the same spectrum with a more complicated model.