The thing about AI consciousness, is that if possible, it implies that subjective experience is computational. That is, you can write a program to execute on a CPU that will have some subjective experiences. (Yes, AI runs on GPUs, but you can rewrite any parallelized instructions for GPUs to run in series on a CPU).
But CPUs can be reduced to Turing machines, so I could give you a pen and long scoll of paper and write a series of instructions, such as "add/multiply these two numbers" and "write the result here on the scroll", that, if you simply follow the instructions, will create consciousness.
That's insane, because following the instructions - doing the math - actually brings the consciousness into existence. Not the paper, not the pen, not the energy you use to do the computations, not some subprocess of your brain - none of those are alive. It's the ACT of DOING THE MATH that is ALIVE. The COMPLETELY FORMLESS operations of the program ARE exactly equivalent to consciousness.
Basically, math is sacred. Doing the right math in some sequence is somehow divine.
>>92318214Unless this guy is right and consciousness is not computational at all.
Anyway, great chat and nwero love. Waited 15 minutes to post.
