On 7/25/2021 2:38 PM, John Clark wrote:
/> the fact that you can say the consciousness of DeepMind might
be so different you have no way of knowing what it would be like
implies that there can be qualitatively different kinds of
consciousness. /
Yes. I only have experience with my own consciousness but I know for a
fact that depending on the time of day my consciousness can be
qualitatively different, and I've known that for a long time. Back
when I was a student taking a calculus exam my consciousness had
reached a high-level but later that same night when I was falling
asleep it was at a much lower level and just a little later it fell
all the way to zero, and then what seemed instantaneous but actually
took 8 hours it started up again.
True. But you left off the interesting conclusion, i.e. that different
kinds of consciousness maybe connected to different kinds of
intelligence. Just as your consciousness can go from awake to asleep
(which is actually different from unconscious), it can also be merely
perceptive, or it can imagine things, or think of a narrative story, and
these can be mixed with various emotional feelings. Right? If you
agree or not, either way it implies that we can test theories of
consciousness.
Brent
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