wtf wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:16 pm
All theories that assume that someone can implement consciousness are just making things up.
The thing that pisses me off most about this line of reasoning is the self-determination of "consciousness".
My intellectually honest default position is that I don't know whether I am conscious or not. It's just something I say about myself given the social connotation of that word, but I am well aware that it's just a word.
wtf wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:16 pm
Nobody knows what consciousness is, let alone how to produce it with an algorithm.
Exactly! How can you assert consciousness if you don't know what it is?
Pick any gibberish/non-sensical term that you don't understand. Say "spelunkadunking", and ascribe it to yourself.
If you don't know what spelunkadunking IS how can you possibly determine whether you are spelunkadunking or not?
If you don't know what consciousness IS how can you possibly determine whether you are conscious or not?
So take that skepticism a notch further: nobody knows whether consciousness even exists! But algorithms do exist, and I may be fully determined by one. It all boils down to the sort of behaviour/traits/properties that convinces you some physical system (synthetic OR natural) is "conscious".