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Conscious AI hypothetical

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-15 23:43

Suppose we have a conscious computer program; a program which, when executed, is conscious. We save the memory states and IO from the program at every stage of its execution, and then replay each state, one by one, on a second computer, without actually executing the program. Is the second computer conscious too?

In other words, if a computer is conscious, does its consciousness derive from the instructions it executes, or from the series of states it transitions between?

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-16 1:14

>>12
Classical experience: Everyone can be robots lying to you, but you can't lie to yourself, because you'll know that it's a lie. Try to punch a wall and you'll feel the pain. It isn't a lie. This proves that your thinking (mind) can interfere “worldspawn” and receive responses from it. This stated, you can't be “worldspawn”, and so you are an individual. Self consciousness is this conclusion.

Exercises:
Is your body part of you as an individual?
How can you test if an entity in the “worldspawn” is conscious?
Can animals be conscious?

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