Re:Can AI Become Conscious?
by AgentME on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:41AM
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I'm not sure we're in disagreement: I agree that a rock's experience is practically null (maybe the fact that its atoms are connected and may be pushed and pulled together makes up the tiniest grain of internal experience), and that a worm's experience is still a world apart from ours and probably much closer to a rock than us. If we were to score an experience on how human-like it is, I'd expect the various elements I named to each refer to exponential or greater increases in score. Comparing the depth of a worm's experience to a human's would be like comparing the volume of a nearly 1-dimensional line segment to the volume of a many-dimensional hyperobject.
Our brains are just tons of biochemical circuits working very mechanistically, with many interesting feedback loops going on that make up our internal experience. A worm's brain has a small and probably countable number of feedback loops going on that I assume make up its tiny internal experience.
Our brains are just tons of biochemical circuits working very mechanistically, with many interesting feedback loops going on that make up our internal experience. A worm's brain has a small and probably countable number of feedback loops going on that I assume make up its tiny internal experience.