To clarify I’m talking about why consciousness is a possible thing to exist, in this universe or any. I’m not talking about a reason why if things can be conscious, they would evolve to be so, or regardless of whether consciousness can exist, they would evolve to act in a way similar to conscious beings.
Granted that given that this universe does have consciousness in it, hence there must be some explanation for consciousness, the superintelligence probably would predict it.
But I’m saying that none of the explanations for why consciousness is a possible thing to exist, feel like the sort of thing that would be convincing to an entity that has no idea it exists in the first place. Nor can I even imagine what sort of argument would be convincing (other than showing them that conscious beings do in fact exist).
To clarify I’m talking about why consciousness is a possible thing to exist, in this universe or any. I’m not talking about a reason why if things can be conscious, they would evolve to be so, or regardless of whether consciousness can exist, they would evolve to act in a way similar to conscious beings.
Granted that given that this universe does have consciousness in it, hence there must be some explanation for consciousness, the superintelligence probably would predict it.
But I’m saying that none of the explanations for why consciousness is a possible thing to exist, feel like the sort of thing that would be convincing to an entity that has no idea it exists in the first place. Nor can I even imagine what sort of argument would be convincing (other than showing them that conscious beings do in fact exist).