Posted: Sep 17, 2018 4:52 pm
Macdoc wrote:This is exactly it...Machines are conscious. A fact that seems to be hiding in plain view these days. Respected scientists publish articles with titles like “Can Machines Be Conscious?” The “world’s smartest physicist” believes consciousness “will remain a mystery”. Visionary members of the Church of Singularity boldly ask: “are machines on the verge of consciousness?”
The problem with these questions is, of course, that machines are already conscious. These people are looking for a future that’s already here, and not finding it. How embarrassing.
https://becominghuman.ai/the-proof-of-m ... 572351de18
That sounds unpleasantly like plobs' "Swing a rope fast enough and it'll go conscious".
I much prefer Graziano's attention schema theory and the notion of "attribution". Is a machine can generate a schema or model of a subjective self and attribute that model to it's own functioning it might be conscious. basically if it can recognise consciousness in itself it is conscious.
It's not sufficient for us to attribute consciousness to a machine and declare it conscious. It's not sufficient to liken some responses as similar to human responses and suppose the machine has an "inner life" or subjective feelings.