Re:AI Is Just Someone Else's Intelligence
by uoaei on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:03PM
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Four options are available:
1. You have no experiences.
2. You have experiences without awareness of what they represent.
3. You are aware of things without being aware of self-as-thing.
4. You are aware of self-as-thing in the midst of other things.
We have no reason to assume cells aren't aware, a sense bolstered by observational studies of how they respond to chemical gradients, etc., but it is quite a leap to get from "recognizing food" to "recognizing the control I have over my environment and effecting changes beneficial to some internally generated goal".
1. You have no experiences.
2. You have experiences without awareness of what they represent.
3. You are aware of things without being aware of self-as-thing.
4. You are aware of self-as-thing in the midst of other things.
We have no reason to assume cells aren't aware, a sense bolstered by observational studies of how they respond to chemical gradients, etc., but it is quite a leap to get from "recognizing food" to "recognizing the control I have over my environment and effecting changes beneficial to some internally generated goal".