Consciousness entails:
1) Awareness of "now" experience.
2) Imagining potential or past experiences.
3) Awareness of making choices.
4) A sense of self, to keep the self living.
Where does the self "awareness" come from? One could imaging a p-zombie making predictions and making choices. Trained AI does it all the time.
Consciousness exists because it is likely the only way nature could come up with to do the above 4 things. It likely requires a particular mode of operation. If we can understand the mode of operation, it would be possible to replicate. Then, our AI robot would also be conscious.
One could create an AI that doesn't have this mode of operation, yet still does some tasks very well. I would argue that it likely wouldn't have a sense of self, or be as flexible in its thinking.
1) Awareness of "now" experience.
2) Imagining potential or past experiences.
3) Awareness of making choices.
4) A sense of self, to keep the self living.
Where does the self "awareness" come from? One could imaging a p-zombie making predictions and making choices. Trained AI does it all the time.
Consciousness exists because it is likely the only way nature could come up with to do the above 4 things. It likely requires a particular mode of operation. If we can understand the mode of operation, it would be possible to replicate. Then, our AI robot would also be conscious.
One could create an AI that doesn't have this mode of operation, yet still does some tasks very well. I would argue that it likely wouldn't have a sense of self, or be as flexible in its thinking.
