Tag: conscious

Unconscious Worlds

“The real question is not whether machines think but whether humans do.” B.F. Skinner Whether humans think or not seems to be a null question as so many clearly do not, finding themselves quite happily swept away upon whichever tide of passionate belief or causal provenance as first takes them. What interests me more is […]

Tags behaviour, conscious, intelligence, logic, Psychology, rationality, self

Philosophy

Some brief (if complex) agnostic observations on Machine Sentience

Post author By G
Post date April 10, 2021
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Context: How would we know if an AI is conscious? We find ourselves in an intractable ontological (as much as epistemological) bind here. If we ever get to the point of generating autonomous synthetic information-processing systems that tick all the boxes for notionally proving their possession of consciousness by whatever standard metric we might arbitrarily […]

Tags AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Complexity, conscious, consciousness, logic, mind, Psychology, subjectivity, technology