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Consciousness - the subjective experience of being aware - Coggle Diagram
Consciousness - the subjective experience of being aware
Can AI be conscious?
Arguments Against
Computation alone cannot create inner experience (Kastrup)
Consciousness may require biological or quantum properties (Faggin)
Digital systems lack intrinsic causal power (Koch / IIT)
Arguments For
If consciousness emerges from complexity, advanced AI may develop it
Simulated brains might create real experience
Current theories
Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
Consciousness is integrated information. More integration means more consciousness
Analytic Idealism (Bernardo Kastrup)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcaV3EEmR9k
Reality is fundamentally mental, not physical
Quantum Information Panpsychism (Federico Faggin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUFewGHLLg
Consciousness is fundamental and linked to quantum processes
Panpsychism (Philip Goff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCxhoqzEaUE
Consciousness is a basic feature of all matter. Everything has some form of experience.
What is Consciousness?
The Easy Problem
Explaining behaviour and function (not experience itself)
The Qualia
Subjective, felt quality of experience. Example: the redness of red, taste of coffee. Cannot be fully described to someone who hasn't experienced it
The Hard Problem
Why do physical processes create experience at all?
History & Development of AI
Turing Test (1950)
https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238?login=true
Can a machine imitate human conversation?
Dartmouth Conference (1956)
https://github.com/mmcguill/historical-ai/blob/master/Papers/McCarthy,%20Minsky,%20Rochester,%20Shannon%20(1955)%20-%20A%20Proposal%20for%20the%20Dartmouth%20Summer%20Research%20Project%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence.pdf
Birth of Artificial Intelligence as a field
Early Applications
Simple games (chess). Robotic vehicles
Modern Development
Neural networks, mathematics, neuroscience
AI & Consciousness
Strong AI
Could potentially have real understanding or awareness
Weak AI
Acts intelligent but does not understand or experience
Why is Consciousness Difficult?
Subjective
Only the experiencer can access their own experience
Non-reducible
Experience cannot be fully reduced to data or behaviour