Re:Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the ...
by anon291 on Sunday May 19, 2024 @10:21AM
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Well-defined in the philosophical sense, perhaps (though I think some would disagree). It is not well-defined in the scientific sense. There is no way to quantify or classify something as conscious.
Another way of putting it is to use the primary versus secondary qualities. Primary qualities belong to properties of things we perceive. Secondary are properties that are part of the perceiving or experiencing subject. Shape, number, composition are properties of things. Sounds, colors, pains are properties of a perceiver.