With the superRoomba, the pressure that the superRoomba applies to the environment doesn’t vary as much with the kind of trick you play on it; it will eventually work out what changes you have made, and adapt its strategy so that you end up with a clean floor.
This criterion seems to separate an “inanimate” object like a hydrogen atom or a pebble bouncing around the world from a superRoomba.
Okay, so the criterion is the extent to which the mechanism screens off environment disturbances from the final result. You used this criterion interchangeably with the issue of whether:
. It has [a] concept of “I am failing to achieve my goals”.
Does that have implication for self-awareness and consciousness?
Does that have implication for self-awareness and consciousness?
Yes, I think so. One prominent hypothesis is that the reason that we evolved with consciousness is that there has to be some way for us to take an overview of the process of us, our goals, and the environment, and the way in which we think that our effort is producing achievement of goals. We need this so that we can do this whole “I am failing to achieve my goals?” check. Why this results in “experience” is not something I am going to attempt in this post.
As I said,
This criterion seems to separate an “inanimate” object like a hydrogen atom or a pebble bouncing around the world from a superRoomba.
Okay, so the criterion is the extent to which the mechanism screens off environment disturbances from the final result. You used this criterion interchangeably with the issue of whether:
Does that have implication for self-awareness and consciousness?
Yes, I think so. One prominent hypothesis is that the reason that we evolved with consciousness is that there has to be some way for us to take an overview of the process of us, our goals, and the environment, and the way in which we think that our effort is producing achievement of goals. We need this so that we can do this whole “I am failing to achieve my goals?” check. Why this results in “experience” is not something I am going to attempt in this post.