> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[email protected]] > > Let's not confuse the 3 meanings of the word "consciousness". > 1. A mental state of wakefulness. > 2. A soul or homunculus, an identity separate from the brain but with > identical behavior, whose belief is reinforced by the sense of qualia: > the pleasant feeling we associate with storing perceptions and thoughts into > episodic memory. > 3. A property of agents that makes it immoral to harm them. >
2 and 3 are intersecting sets in many ways. They are deeply intertwined. And 3 is more than just a property it's perhaps at the root of all immorality. > With sufficient training data, you could write a program that would input > poetry and predict how people would feel about it. Then with a small > modification, the computer could claim to feel the same way. > Yes but - a synthetic (human) consciousness wouldn't just be an accurate copy of what people feel. It would have to actually feel it. A computational experience of the feeling not a goal of accurate estimation while seeking reward for replying pleasurably to the inputter's poetic artistry. John ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
