Yeah, I can see that, making something different by defining it as such. If I use my own consciousness as the measuring stick then I can definitively say that a dogs consciousness isn't "genuine"..it's unlike my own. Does that make a dog AI (or in a similar class of things as AI)? But perhaps more strangely, if my consciousness was the bar for the genuine article....would those who have their consciousness somehow impaired (relative to myself) be "less genuine" than I. Would those with damage to their consciousness then be somehow similar to dogs..or AI? As we bring the lens further in...would those "less intelligent" - as a part of that consciousness- than myself have a "less genuine" sort of consciousness?
Granted, the two aren't the same thing- but we'd have to be able to identify a consciousness before we could examine how it works. Bit of a viscious circle, because then we have to ask -how do we identify consciousness. By reference to how it works? Or the effect "it" produces? If two things produce a similar effect through different means does it really make sense to consider one of them genuine and the other artificial?
Granted, the two aren't the same thing- but we'd have to be able to identify a consciousness before we could examine how it works. Bit of a viscious circle, because then we have to ask -how do we identify consciousness. By reference to how it works? Or the effect "it" produces? If two things produce a similar effect through different means does it really make sense to consider one of them genuine and the other artificial?
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