You are right, there is still the experiential question of consciousness.
I.e. qualia.
I think that will become tractable with AI, since we will be able to adjust what their mind has access to vs. what it doesn’t. Experiment with various levels of awareness.
By which I mean, our experience of the color red seems magical in that we can’t explain our experience of it. The experience is manufactured below our conscious level for our conscious level.
If we (or AI) could progressively add more access to lower encodings, we could at least experiment with our experiences in ways we cannot now.
But qualia is the only unanswered question I think. (Including the qualia of being self-aware of one’s own self awareness, which doesn’t need to be a special case.)
How do these codings of perceived information get seemingly indescribable observed qualities?
I.e. qualia.
I think that will become tractable with AI, since we will be able to adjust what their mind has access to vs. what it doesn’t. Experiment with various levels of awareness.
By which I mean, our experience of the color red seems magical in that we can’t explain our experience of it. The experience is manufactured below our conscious level for our conscious level.
If we (or AI) could progressively add more access to lower encodings, we could at least experiment with our experiences in ways we cannot now.
But qualia is the only unanswered question I think. (Including the qualia of being self-aware of one’s own self awareness, which doesn’t need to be a special case.)
How do these codings of perceived information get seemingly indescribable observed qualities?
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