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'But can you really ever know if there's 'anybody home' internally, if there is any inner experience?' he continued. And when a robot acts like it's conscious and can talk about its own awareness, and when we interact with it, we will inevitably have that social perception, that gut feeling, that the robot is conscious. This is because an assumption of consciousness is an attribution, a social attribution. 'But we have a kind of gut certainty about it. You don't know if I'm conscious,' said Princeton University neuroscientist Michael Graziano. He claims that, because the external behaviors of a human, animal or even a robot can be similar, we 'fool ourselves' into thinking 'our internal feelings are so unique.' Can we ever really assess consciousness? To robotics entrepreneur (and MIT professor emeritus) Rodney Brooks, 'there's no reason we couldn't have a conscious machine made from silicon.' Brooks' view is a natural consequence of his beliefs that the universe is mechanistic and that consciousness, which seems special, is an illusion. A perfect simulation of the brain - say, on a computer - would be no more conscious than a perfect simulation of a rainstorm would make us all wet.' A deep mistake embedded in our popular culture is that simulation is equivalent to duplication. 'The one mistake we must avoid,' Searle cautioned, 'is supposing that if you simulate it, you duplicate it. But to build a flying machine, you do need sufficient causal power to overcome the force of gravity.' It's like saying you don't need feathers in order to fly. Note that you don't need neurons to have consciousness. That is, if you knew what was causally sufficient to produce consciousness in human beings and if you could have that in another system, then you would produce consciousness in that other system. So if we can know exactly how the brain causes consciousness, down to its finest details, I don't see any obstacle, in principle, to building a conscious machine. 'Sure it can - we have artificial hearts. 'It's like the question, 'Can a machine artificially pump blood as the heart does?'' Searle responded. (In Searle's 'Chinese Room' argument, a person inside a closed space can use a rule book to match Chinese characters with English words and thus appear to understand Chinese, when, in fact, she does not.) But, I asked Searle, 'Will it ever be possible, with hyperadvanced technology, for nonbiological intelligences to be conscious in the same sense that we are conscious? Can computers have 'inner experience'?' To Berkeley philosopher John Searle, computer programs can never have a mind or be conscious in the human sense, even if they give rise to equivalent behaviors and interactions with the external world. You must experience it.' Can a computer be conscious? You could provide a perfect, complete map of my brain - what's going on when I see, hear, smell - but if I haven't seen, heard, smelled for myself, that brain map is not going to tell me about the quality of seeing red, hearing a clarinet, smelling mothballs. You must experience them to know what they're like. I see a red rose I hear a clarinet I smell mothballs. 'I see colors - reds, greens, blues - and they feel a certain way to me. 'Qualia are the raw sensations of experience,' Chalmers said. 'Qualia' are the core of the mind-body-problem.

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NYU Philosopher David Chalmers famously described the 'hard problem' of consciousness: 'Why does it feel like something inside? Why is all our brain processing - vast neural circuits and computational mechanisms - accompanied by conscious experience? Why do we have this amazing inner movie going on in our minds? I don't think the hard problem of consciousness can be solved purely in terms of neuroscience.' What is consciousness?Ĭonsciousness is a main theme of 'Closer To Truth,' and among the subtopics I discuss with scientists and philosophers on the program is the classic 'mind-body problem' - what is the relationship between the mental thoughts in our minds and the physical brains in our heads? What is the deep cause of consciousness? (All quotes that follow are from 'Closer To Truth.') Actually, I'm a skeptic - the deep cause of consciousness is the elephant in the room, and most techno-futurists do not see it. Techno-futurists assume, almost as an article of faith, that superstrong AI (post-singularity) will inevitably be conscious. I start by assuming the “Singularity,” when artificial intelligence (“AI”) will redesign itself recursively and progressively, such that AI will become vastly more powerful than human intelligence ('superstrong AI').

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