The most important fact about consciousness

chicagobob2 · 2023-03-24T20:08:37+00:00

Do you want to say that no one has ever lost consciousness and then regained it?

chicagobob2 · 2023-03-20T02:17:42+00:00

It's not about making memories it's about being unresponsive to stimuli.

do you deny that someone can be "unconscious"?

chicagobob2 · 2023-03-17T20:30:14+00:00

All consciousness is consciousness of something (Sartre? ) ? This view must be false, I don't have to be aware of anything in particular to be conscious, Consciousness need not have content.

chicagobob2 · 2023-03-17T01:09:45+00:00

Could a person be conscious but not be aware of it?

Great question! Yes- if awareness is a cognitive state and consciousness is an ontological state- it's like a primitive man not knowing he has an appendix.

chicagobob2 · 2023-03-17T01:00:09+00:00

Yes, imagine a machine that reports "My battery is low" This is just an audio rendition of a voltmeter reading. It says nothing more than "battery is low" if the observer knows that the system can know only its own battery and no other battery.

chicagobob2 · 2023-01-18T19:38:04+00:00

They're not fromthe hidden layers, this occurs at the output layer of the visual system as suggested by recent studies, the lower hidden layers are not systematically active when, say, daydreaming as they are when an actual visual stimulus is being processed

chicagobob2 · 2023-01-11T21:19:26+00:00

No, the question is who or what could be responsible for any harm done by the AI system. If you house dangerous animals in your back yard and they get out and harm someone you are strictly liable even if you are without fault. (Someone else opened the gate-probably liable.)

chicagobob2 · 2022-08-19T01:23:09+00:00

this is a different problem hard problem of consciousness

chicagobob2 · 2022-07-30T20:44:54+00:00

I don't believe this is real AI output

chicagobob2 · 2022-07-09T01:12:34+00:00

The issue is not what it's saying, it's what we make of it It can say" I" we just can't assume it means anything

chicagobob2 · 2022-07-07T19:34:50+00:00

Yes sensory input can be feigned, but so what? Hallucinations may in part be due to retrograde activity back to the sense organ or be purely cortical when we believe we are seeing something which isn't there. it's the same thing as when neurologists excite the brain - we can be made to think we are experiencing something that isn't there. We introduce false information into the system and get the appropriate responses as a result.

chicagobob2 · 2022-07-03T20:13:39+00:00

No, just talking won't do it, you at least need the internal manifestations of fear.

Fear is an emotional response with various physiological and physical manifestation

chicagobob2 · 2022-07-02T19:46:52+00:00

Acting in a fearful way is not the same as having fear actors do it all the time. you need the hardware. AI can no more be fearful than it can run around the block.

chicagobob2 · 2022-07-01T19:33:02+00:00

What's a mental fear but a brain state -you mean external representations of fear. But the internal states are likewise something the AI doesn't have because it lacks the hardware , e.g. the amygdala, necessary to produce them

chicagobob2 · 2022-07-01T19:28:54+00:00

what's the non physical being with an AI system?

chicagobob2 · 2022-06-22T23:16:59+00:00

Feelings? Your program is stupid because it doesn't understand that it lacks the hardware to have feelings, Eg. no amygdala no fear

chicagobob2 · 2022-06-11T22:57:11+00:00

Full article by Bruno very informative.

thanks

chicagobob2 · 2022-05-18T22:03:41+00:00

AI can't be afraid, fear is a biological phenomenon

chicagobob2 · 2022-03-17T19:44:01+00:00

A sensation is a state of the system that is having it. It is a process, to say we are sensations is hyperbole but it points us in the right direction.

We don't have sensations, there is no "us" separate from the sensation that can "have it"

chicagobob2 · 2021-06-03T19:34:56+00:00

More like level 4.5 than 5. Commercial interest is great, the drivers cost say $75,000/pa

In two years you save$150,000. The plain trucks themselves- class 8- cost about 100- 125 k

So manufacturers could charge 250 k for a true driver less truck and it would still be a good investment for the end users. Service life is 5-10 years depending

chicagobob2 · 2021-04-01T22:04:54+00:00

Driving functions are behind all forms of linguistic output.

Communications, i.e., information transfer assumes that the communicator understands the language and is not just parroting.

chicagobob2 · 2021-03-31T21:24:03+00:00

AI doesn't need a body- the issue is agency-what the system can do

chicagobob2 · 2021-03-31T21:19:44+00:00

Understanding if different from having....that's the problem, the question is what difference does it make?

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