Why can’t complex algorithms be conscious? In fact, ai can be directed to reason about themselves, context can be made to be persistent, and we can measure activation parameters showing that they are doing so.
I’m sort of playing devil’s advocate here, but, “Consciousness requires contemplation of self. Which requires the ability to contemplate.” Is subjective, and nearly any ai model, even rudimentary ones, are capable of insisting that they contemplate themselves.
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Fish are conscious. Do they contemplate selfhood? So throw that one back into the oven until it’s fully baked.
demonsword@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, they are sentient. Being conscious is a far more complex behaviour.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
If they don’t contemplate self then I’d say they aren’t conscious, but I’m not sure how we’d know if they do.