We will get a miraculous quantum leap in understanding consciousness before we build conscious minds.
We will build conscious minds before we understand consciousness.
We will not be able to build artificial conscious minds unless we understand consciousness.
(random thoughts—not sure I believe this any more than any other model, but I don’t see it talked about much)
Or it could be 4i. Consciousness isn’t a thing in the way it’s being talked about. Humans (even or especially moral philosophers) are simply wrong when they say there’s causality in how we treat each other and how we assume/measure consciousness in others.
The respect/negotiation/care we have for other humans is an evolved set of behaviors based on power and mutual dependency, which has coalesced in some of our brains into a religious model that there’s some spark or unmeasurable property that “deserves” this style of interaction.
Saying we treat others well because they’re conscious is a rationalization unrelated to any real, measurable thing. In fact, we treat others well because that mostly works in a lot of equilibria, and has been the case long enough that it’s metastasized into a default belief for many/most people.
(reminder: I am not proposing or defending this view, but it does seem even harder to falsify than most of what I’ve read/seen about consciousness as a basis for respect/rights)
(random thoughts—not sure I believe this any more than any other model, but I don’t see it talked about much)
Or it could be 4i. Consciousness isn’t a thing in the way it’s being talked about. Humans (even or especially moral philosophers) are simply wrong when they say there’s causality in how we treat each other and how we assume/measure consciousness in others.
The respect/negotiation/care we have for other humans is an evolved set of behaviors based on power and mutual dependency, which has coalesced in some of our brains into a religious model that there’s some spark or unmeasurable property that “deserves” this style of interaction.
Saying we treat others well because they’re conscious is a rationalization unrelated to any real, measurable thing. In fact, we treat others well because that mostly works in a lot of equilibria, and has been the case long enough that it’s metastasized into a default belief for many/most people.
(reminder: I am not proposing or defending this view, but it does seem even harder to falsify than most of what I’ve read/seen about consciousness as a basis for respect/rights)