Consciousness is a particular mode of information operation, which leads to self-awareness, a model of self, a model or the world, and a continuing simulation of past, present, and future for this self and world.
My assumption is that every person who ever existed was NOT a pZombie, and therefore consciousness is a very easy thing to create, given the correct computing structure and senses. We just have little idea how to do it.
Computers can mimic some of the things humans can do, but that doesn't make them conscious. Consciousness has been formed over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. It is a particular mode of operation and way of experiencing. Mimicking the outputs of a human does not recreate the complex inner life of a human. Of course, one day an artificial neural-network might arise which has a far more rich and complex type of consciousness than ours.
My assumption is that every person who ever existed was NOT a pZombie, and therefore consciousness is a very easy thing to create, given the correct computing structure and senses. We just have little idea how to do it.
Computers can mimic some of the things humans can do, but that doesn't make them conscious. Consciousness has been formed over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. It is a particular mode of operation and way of experiencing. Mimicking the outputs of a human does not recreate the complex inner life of a human. Of course, one day an artificial neural-network might arise which has a far more rich and complex type of consciousness than ours.
