On 8/25/2019 1:10 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
This is an important question for the AI program. If you simulate a physical brain by simulating the detailed behaviour and interconnections of all the neutrons and other structure in the brain, will that be capable of consciousness? Or if consciousness is actually a computation independent of these neural processes, can you create consciousness only by actually running the same (or similar) program on a computer?
My view is that consciousness must be conscious OF something and that implies it is relative to an environment. The environment may also be part of the computation, i.e. "simulated". But then the consciousness is limited by this. If the consiousness is to be human-like then it must be consciousness OF a human-like physical world. That not to assume the physical world cannot also be simulated in the sense of be computable. But it means that it is a world which is largely independent of the conscious minds within it, so physics is essential to it.
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