On Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 10:48 AM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote:
> No computer can "know that you know without knowing why", or dream, have > thoughts, visions, NDEs, Eureka moments, flashes of insight, gut feelings, > intuition, premonition, and so on. > > How would your computational consciousness model explain such phenomena? > LLMs can explain, recognize and imitate all of these emotional experiences. The two differences are that human emotions are hard coded into our DNA but LLMs learn them from their training data, and that humans are controlled by their emotions, but a text predictor can be programmed do other things with these predictions, like implement a data compressor. If an AI was programmed to carry out its predictions of human behavior in real time, then it would be indistinguishable from having feelings. If a robot that knows everything you carried out its predictions of your actions in real time, then that robot would be you as far as anyone could tell. Everything you do is decided by your emotions. We rationalize our decisions after the fact by searching for logical reasons for doing what we did. This gives us the illusion of free will. We know it is an illusion just like subjective (type 2) consciousness, because we can't define it. AI is not about intelligence, unless you mean intelligence as defined by Turing as behavior indistinguishable from human. The big tech companies are all making functional copies of our brains, because predicting your actions is a requirement for controlling you with positive reinforcement. Google already knows more about me than I know about myself because I let it continuously track my location in exchange for using maps for free. It will cost about $1 quadrillion to collect all the knowledge stored in 8 billion human brains. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T0518db1e3a0c25c5-M65d61a17f832e582f2eb3e3f Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
