On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:09 AM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... > Hint: by consciousness, you probably mean what thinking feels like. It > feels like you want to keep doing it by not dying, which increases your > odds of passing on your DNA. > The real problem is people keep talking about "consciousness" the way they'd been talking about "intelligence" up until Shane Legg helped people with word-sense disambiguation. It's like trying to nail a jellyfish to the wall, but just as with "intelligence" it comes down to the ability to measure what you're talking about and that comes down to operational definition. Thus far the only operational definitions of "consciousness" are in terms of "intelligence", but I seriously doubt anyone would claim that their dog isn't "conscious" in some meaningful sense -- the only question is, in _which_ sense do they mean "conscious". ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7c7052974ce450f1-Mba4a0497ffa185312c110220 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
