Re:A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explan...
by RaftPeople on Friday July 05, 2024 @02:45PM
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> Do you believe it's possible for a human being to exhibit all the external characteristics of consciousness without an internal conscious experience?
Nobody knows whether conscious experience is a requirement or not to "exhibit all of the external characteristics".
It's possible that the only way to get from state N to state N+1 is to include the consciousness function as part of that calculation.
A counter to this would be that a lookup table of states would produce the same external characteristics without consciousness.
A counter to that counter would be that the consciousness function is required to produce state N+1 from state N. The creation of the lookup table must have invoked the consciousness function to arrive at and store state N+1.
The thing we just don't really know is whether state N+1 can be derived from state N without the consciousness function being invoked.
Nobody knows whether conscious experience is a requirement or not to "exhibit all of the external characteristics".
It's possible that the only way to get from state N to state N+1 is to include the consciousness function as part of that calculation.
A counter to this would be that a lookup table of states would produce the same external characteristics without consciousness.
A counter to that counter would be that the consciousness function is required to produce state N+1 from state N. The creation of the lookup table must have invoked the consciousness function to arrive at and store state N+1.
The thing we just don't really know is whether state N+1 can be derived from state N without the consciousness function being invoked.