I really like the term “qualia-laden” for picking out a specific property of an agent. Did you make that up?
My current guess is that with “human self-awareness” you’re trying to talk about whatever it is that the mirror test aims to measure. My guess would be that in the biological world all mirror-test-passers are qualia-laden, and that human intelligence (and possible future machine intelligences) do (or will) involve both of these properties but also many other things as well (like symbolic communication, etc). Is mirror-test-passing a helpful term, or does the fact that magpies pass the mirror test mean that it’s not what you’re trying to talk about?
I really like the term “qualia-laden” for picking out a specific property of an agent. Did you make that up?
My current guess is that with “human self-awareness” you’re trying to talk about whatever it is that the mirror test aims to measure. My guess would be that in the biological world all mirror-test-passers are qualia-laden, and that human intelligence (and possible future machine intelligences) do (or will) involve both of these properties but also many other things as well (like symbolic communication, etc). Is mirror-test-passing a helpful term, or does the fact that magpies pass the mirror test mean that it’s not what you’re trying to talk about?