Man, I just want to say this was a fantastic read... I'm left at a crossroad between self-awareness, physicalism and consciousness where self-awareness and physicalism seem capable of empirical metrics but consciousness is rooted too much (or entirely) in subjectivity. But that reminds me of Dennett's Quining Qualia (https://philpapers.org/rec/DENQQ) where he tries to argue against he subjetivity of consciousness through qualia - the properties we assign to our conscious experiences.
My current and only take at responding to the proctor would be an inside joke, which is incredibly funny to me and one other person, a proof of our subjective qualia aka consciousness? There's more here to come back to...
It's not easy to teach a parrot a specific phrase that you've chosen, they tend to repeat whatever they find most rewarding. However, a parrot is at least as conscious as anyone reading this post.
Perhaps the answer is that it doesn't matter whether or not you can prove consciousness. If the feelings, experiences, and memories are real to you (or at least feel real) - why bother convincing anyone else of it? If an LLM says it can feel, experience, and remember.. what is the risk if we choose to just believe it?
Man, I just want to say this was a fantastic read... I'm left at a crossroad between self-awareness, physicalism and consciousness where self-awareness and physicalism seem capable of empirical metrics but consciousness is rooted too much (or entirely) in subjectivity. But that reminds me of Dennett's Quining Qualia (https://philpapers.org/rec/DENQQ) where he tries to argue against he subjetivity of consciousness through qualia - the properties we assign to our conscious experiences.
My current and only take at responding to the proctor would be an inside joke, which is incredibly funny to me and one other person, a proof of our subjective qualia aka consciousness? There's more here to come back to...
It's not easy to teach a parrot a specific phrase that you've chosen, they tend to repeat whatever they find most rewarding. However, a parrot is at least as conscious as anyone reading this post.
Perhaps the answer is that it doesn't matter whether or not you can prove consciousness. If the feelings, experiences, and memories are real to you (or at least feel real) - why bother convincing anyone else of it? If an LLM says it can feel, experience, and remember.. what is the risk if we choose to just believe it?
Hopefully the good will out-weigh the bad with AI. Very concerning the capabilities and we are just scratching the surface!