What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by peteretep on Thursday August 11, 2016 @10:05PM (#12273016)

I'm curious at what point you think agency becomes consciousness. Is it self-awareness? Is a dog conscious? A mouse? A snail? An ant? A bacteria? A tree?

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by wildmusings on Thursday August 11, 2016 @10:27PM (#12273068)

It has nothing to do with agency. I'm talking about the phenomenon of subjective experience. The difference between a computer that analyzes camera input and a being that actually sees the world. It would be the difference between you and a philosophical zombie.

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by 0134340 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:02PM (#12273165)

If you aren't that "artificial" intelligence and can't put yourself in that subjective experience, how would you know that the AI's subjective experience differs from yours? Because you're relying on material observance? You realize your conundrum now? You have to rely on the material to gauge the material yet you try to invalidate the material experience using material observations.

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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by ajuc on Friday August 12, 2016 @04:51AM (#12274169)

> The difference between a computer that analyzes camera input and a being that actually sees the world.

How do you know there is a qualitative difference?

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