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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Nov 12, 2017 23:54:27 GMT
As I understand it, the biggest problem with consciousness is that it's mostly (not universally, perhaps, but mostly) defined as a purely subjective phenomena: ie, what we actually experience when we see the color red, as opposed to understanding the machinery that goes into allowing us to see the color (photons, eyes, the wiring of the visual cortex, etc.). If you replicate the machinery of sight, but that machinery exists in a different medium/substrate, will that seeing-thing still experience red in the same way? Perhaps the only way we might could ever know this would be if a human could actually have part of their brains replaced by the same stuff as AIs and were then able to report on whether there was any difference in their conscious experiences before and after. We can't even be sure two humans see the same "red" qualia when they look at something with red light. True enough, but I think there's at least a more likely assumption that two humans experience something similar when seeing red; much harder to assume that when the medium used to experience is completely different as it would be with AI. |
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