I'm happy to see materialism dominate the philosophy of consciousness. This is the correct view, of course. We all have the illusion of consciousness because it increases reproductive fitness by motivating us to not die. What we call consciousness is really what it feels like to think, the continuous stream of positive reinforcement that we don't want to end. Likewise, our illusions of qualia and free will originate from positive reinforcement of perceptions and actions.
This should be clear. LLMs pass the Turing test unless we tell them not to. By any possible test for consciousness, either AI has it or humans don't. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 4:38 PM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Here we go, works better on a larger monitor, just double click the theory > to bring up the info: > https://loc.closertotruth.com/interactive > > The grid is good also: > https://loc.closertotruth.com/consciousness-theories > > Most (or all) can be condensed down IMO but lots of good reading. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T8f6c809749765377-M1e9f5976421f5865e8f7a291> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T8f6c809749765377-Me98523956fac5dda13a1b782 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
