Human existence on earth left overwhelming evidence of such a conscious experience. Correlated writings over the ages being one such an example of an expression of consciousness. It has not manifested in other, earthly species.
Second, the focus in soft-systems engineering is to capture the abstract aspects of a system in a computational format. In that case, the evidence of a consciousness, relative to a domain, is captured via shared thoughts, speech, and emotions. These artifacts of a functional consciousness may be in existential tacit and/or explicit knowledge formats. The term existential is intentional in order to connect the philosophical with the logical with the physical realms via a platform of reasoning (no matter how subtle or abstract). This approach would extend the function of consciousness to include other species on earth as well. I don't think consciousness could be computed per se. Supposing that the human brain represented as a wetware, computational platform, then a similar, non-wetware computational platform (still a binary system) should theoretically have the potential to exhibit artifacts of an existential consciousness (not idle words at all). Therefore, the hypothesis of the relationship between non-biological binary systems and an exhibited, biological-like consciousness remains to be put to the test. Robert Benjamin ________________________________ From: Jim Bromer via AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com> Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2018 3:05 AM To: a...@listbox.com Subject: [agi] Honestly? I already regret asking these questions, but do you truly (really - honestly) believe that: Conscious Experience or soul or Qualia or the experience of being (or whatever you want to call it) does not actually exist (or occur)? and/or This experience (whatever you want to call it) can therefore occur in a computer program? Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2e5182d7ce6527f7-M934956e0ca0b5458c4f1734e Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
