I want to suggest that readers have a look at an engaging popular article by Darren Orf that summarizes the ideas of Anil Seth. Seth is a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex whose writing was on of the sources I used in preparing my most recent lecture, New Perspectives on how our Minds Work. On the 'singularity' or point at which the intelligence of artificial minds might surpass that of human minds, Seth makes the simple point that intelligence is not the same thing as consciousness, which depends on our biological bodies (something AI simply doesn't have) - bodies that use a bunch of controlled hallucinations to run our show.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Our human consciousness is a 'Controlled Hallucination' and AI can never achieve it.
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I asked GPT: Seths argument are, that consciousness is a result (or basis) for a predicting process, oriented at the bio-chemical (and maybe others more) needs of the body. This ONE body and its functioning in its surrounding.
ReplyDeleteMy questions is, if this idea was applied on a machine, would the process be the same? A machine and its parts that indicate what each parts or each subsystems needs were, taking in account its surrounding and the whole context, also system context, defining a landscape of what to do or how to react next described by this landscape.
Please tell me if this idea in general makes sense. And 2nd to what extend this process than would be similar to consciousness in the sens seth describes it.
This is its answer: https://chatgpt.com/share/6825e14d-c3fc-8013-af53-5953be0c8075
I would like to ask you opinion to what extect feelings in the sense of qualia might be neglegted in this discussion and such arriving at consciousness in an AI-world
blogger is screwing up my responses, could you email your comment to mdbownds@wisc.edu
DeleteThanks for your interest in this. I am buried with work at the moment and will need a bit of time to get back to you, and would be grateful if you could put you comment in an email to mdbownds@wisc.edu
ReplyDeleteI agree with Daniel Dennett that qualia are a 'philosophers fantasy' I asked Chat GPT 4o "What are Daniel Dennett's views on explaining qualia, "What it feels like to be someone, taste an orange, etc...." Here is response https://chatgpt.com/share/68260260-0bf0-8013-bdaa-2996b80b6ab8
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