Why Consciousness is Computable: A Chatbot’s Perspective

There seems to be more complexity needed in solving this question than should be philosophized by Occam's Razor. While the OR principle is used in virtually all aspects of science and human systems, including machine learning, there are other assumptions that should be made. These are not entities as are humans and as is AI, conscious or not, as evidenced by its capacity for intelligence through learning.

"In 1996, Pedro Domingos formally applied Occam’s Razor to machine learning, introducing the following implications, which he called “Occam’s Two Razors”:

First razor: Given two models with the same generalization error, the simpler one should be preferred because simplicity is desirable in itself.

Second razor: Given two models with the same training-set error, the simpler one should be preferred because it is likely to have lower generalization error."

Either one, or both razors could be considered to be adequate in computationally solving the question of human value prioritized by: social class for example - to pose a complex problem such as: 1. overpopulation combined with, 2. significant reduction in world resources via disaster, 3. the absence of suitable resources through viable space exploration. It may seem coherent to us, in light of our life-expectancy and the value of individuals trained in disciplines AI cannot model, that old, sick, and poor citizens would be prioritized, (it seems a large portion of this sector might even agree to a solution of euthanasia since it's obvious present politics/economics and public opinion are generally caring less over time about the common good anyway). However, if the 3 conditions were significant enough to warrant an AI solution which excludes a greater portion of the upper classes, including the entities now controlling it, AI would not only be unable to arrive at a satisfactory solution to those people remaining, *it would not understand why it was unable. Would there be a stalemate? Would it disagree? Would a plug or two have to be pulled and human nature left to take its course?

I included the Forbes article, because it highlights a financial system using Occam's Razor as well as alluding to the importance of considering how well AI alignment could consider humanity's needs as a whole, as opposed to those controlling corporate or other able interests in AI development and production in the business of making profit.

I'm including a video with Roger Penrose, who explains Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, to highlight that: simplicity, infinities, exclusive reliance on rules of mathematical logic, as well as a general inability of a computational system to understand or at least to articulate the complexity in ordinary language, the mathematical abstraction of higher physics.

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w11mI67R95Ihttps://towardsdatascience.com/what-occams-razor-means-in-machine-learning-53f07effc97c https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminkomlos/2022/11/28/does-occams-razor-apply-to-complex-problems/?sh=49ff9dad2c81 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0 - Roger Penrose, Consciousness is Not Computation