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Re:Can AI Become Conscious? by ryukafalz on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:52AM (#23165894)
If your brain has a computational process for awareness, and it has itself somewhere in the inputs... that’d make you aware of your awareness, no? It’s recursion!
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Re:Can AI Become Conscious? by gbjw on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:53PM (#23172280)
The only way to build a recursive loop is to say that awareness is some state (the output of the awareness process). But that just begs the question, how could awareness be a state? If it is a meta-phenomena (i.e., the result of some sort of complexity or self-referential loop) then what exactly is aware that one is aware?
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