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There are no properties of matter or energy that can have a sense of self or experience qualia. Yet we all do. Denying the hard problem of consciousness just
by eric-p7 10mo ago
There are no properties of matter or energy that can have a sense of self or experience qualia. Yet we all do. Denying the hard problem of consciousness just slows down our progress in discovering what it is.
- estearum 10mo ago(Hint: I am not denying the hard problem of consciousness ;) )
- red75prime 10mo agoWe need a difference to discover what it is. How can we know that all LLMs don't?
- thfuran 10mo agoEven if they do, it can only be transiently during the inference process. Unlike a brain that is constantly undergoing dynamic electrochemical processes, an LLM is just an inert pile of data except when the model is being executed.
- eric-p7 10mo agoIf you tediously work out the LLM math by hand, is the pen and paper conscious too? Consciousness is not computation. You need something else.
- xtracto 10mo agoThis comment here is pure gold. I love it. On the flip side: If you do that, YOU are conscious and intelligent. Would it mean that the machine that did the computation became conscious when it did it? What is consciousness?
- estearum 10mo agoThe pen and paper are not the actual substrate of entropy reduction, so not really. Consciousness is what it "feels like" when a part of the universe is engaged in local entropy reduction. You heard it here first, folks!