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Re: Robotics/AI proof definition of consciousness
Great topic Twit! One of my faves.
I will tell you that I don't think we have a good enough handle on the definition of the words wiki is using to define consciousness, and as a result, no, we can't define "consciousness." Can you define sentience? How do you demonstrate "self-awareness?" All of them are so subjective that they come under the rubric of Justice Stewart's "I can't define it but I know it when I see it."
We're a lot further along now technologically than we were when Alan Turing broached the subject, but that's not saying much. He basically seemed to say: the only way you can tell is if you sit down in front of it and a real intelligence and can tell no difference.
As a practical matter, my personal belief is that the implementation "intelligence" will be far simpler than we think, but that creating it is an evolutionary (as in letting neural networks build themselves) rather than algorithmic.
Fuzzily,
Buffy
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