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Consciousness

TagLast edit: 20 Nov 2021 17:48 UTC by Yoav Ravid

The word “consciousness” is used in a variety of different ways, and there are large disagreements about the reality and nature (and even coherence) of some of the things people profess to mean by “consciousness.”

Colloquially, the word “conscious” is used to pick out a few different things:

Reasonably mainstream academic overviews of “consciousness” can be found in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.

This tag is tentatively and provisionally about the “having experiences” meaning(s) of “consciousness.” For wakefulness and dreaming, see sleep. For knowledge, perception, and attention, see attention and cognitive science. And for reflective awareness and self-awareness, see identity, personal identity, and reflective reasoning.

This tag’s focus is tentative and provisional because it is not altogether clear that “consciousness in the sense of having experiences” is a coherent idea, or one that’s distinct from the other categories above. This tag is a practical tool for organizing discussion on a family of related topics, and isn’t intended as a strong statement “this is the right way of carving nature at its joints.”

Suffice to say that (as of December 8, 2020) enough LessWrongers find consciousness confusing enough, and disagree enough about what’s going on here, for it to make sense to use this page to organize discussion of those disagreements, rather than “picking a winner” immediately and running with it.

“Having experiences”: Practical implications

Beyond sheer curiosity about how the mind works, there are several sub-questions that have caused thinkers to take a special interest in the question “what is ‘having an experience’?”:

LessWrong writers have typically been strongly on board with physicalism (3.1), and on board with the idea that an emulation of me is “me” (and conscious) in every sense that matters (2.1). Beyond that, however, views vary. (By comparison, ~74% of Anglophone philosophers of mind endorsed “physicalism” as opposed to “non-physicalism” in 2009.)

“Having experiences”: Pre-LessWrong discussion

How does this “having experiences” thing work, then? Well, this wiki page’s editors haven’t agreed on an answer yet. As a cop-out, we instead provide a list of highlights from the history of other people thinking about this.

For concreteness, we’ll list particular years, authors, and texts, even though this makes some choices of what to highlight more arbitrary. Philosophy also shows up much more than psychology or neuroscience proper, not because philosophy is necessarily the right way to make progress here, but because the philosophy highlights are more “meta” and therefore choosing what to include relies less on a LessWrong consensus about consciousness itself.

Highlights:

“Having experiences”: Recent discussion

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−15 points
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Book Re­view: Oral­ity and Liter­acy: The Tech­nol­o­giz­ing of the Word

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:12 UTC
13 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

ACI#6: A Non-Dual­is­tic ACI Model

Akira Pyinya9 Nov 2023 23:01 UTC
10 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Towards Eval­u­at­ing AI Sys­tems for Mo­ral Sta­tus Us­ing Self-Reports

16 Nov 2023 20:18 UTC
45 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

An Idea on How LLMs Can Show Self-Serv­ing Bias

Bruce W. Lee23 Nov 2023 20:25 UTC
6 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Fac­ing Up to the Prob­lem of Consciousness

Bruce W. Lee10 Dec 2023 23:31 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Con­scious­ness Box

GradualImprovement11 Dec 2023 16:45 UTC
33 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

The Limits of Ar­tifi­cial Con­scious­ness: A Biol­ogy-Based Cri­tique of Chalmers’ Fad­ing Qualia Argument

Štěpán Los17 Dec 2023 19:11 UTC
−6 points
9 comments17 min readLW link

The prospect of Teleo­nomic AI

Value5 Jan 2024 17:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Mus­ings on Cargo Cult Consciousness

Gareth Davidson25 Jan 2024 23:00 UTC
−13 points
9 comments17 min readLW link

Epistemic Hell

rogersbacon27 Jan 2024 17:13 UTC
68 points
20 comments14 min readLW link

A re­view of “Don’t for­get the bound­ary prob­lem...”

jessicata8 Feb 2024 23:19 UTC
12 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Do an­droids silence echoes of the past?

Michael Li11 Feb 2024 2:35 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Thank you for trig­ger­ing me

Cissy12 Feb 2024 20:09 UTC
4 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(www.moremyself.xyz)

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, con­scious­ness, and be­lief strength measures

Jakub Smékal17 Feb 2024 5:45 UTC
1 point
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Which an­i­mals re­al­ize which types of sub­jec­tive welfare?

MichaelStJules27 Feb 2024 19:31 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How is Chat-GPT4 Not Con­scious?

amelia28 Feb 2024 0:00 UTC
19 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Claude 3 claims it’s con­scious, doesn’t want to die or be modified

Mikhail Samin4 Mar 2024 23:05 UTC
66 points
99 comments14 min readLW link

A con­ver­sa­tion with Claude3 about its consciousness

rife5 Mar 2024 19:44 UTC
−2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(i.imgur.com)

Do LLMs some­time simu­late some­thing akin to a dream?

Nezek8 Mar 2024 1:25 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Is an­a­lyz­ing LLM be­hav­ior a valid means for as­sess­ing po­ten­tial con­scious­ness, as de­scribed by global workspace the­ory and higher or­der the­o­ries?

amelia11 Mar 2024 19:37 UTC
1 point
1 comment12 min readLW link

Epiphe­nom­e­nal­ism leads to elimi­na­tivism about qualia

Clément L11 Mar 2024 19:53 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

A Nail in the Coffin of Exceptionalism

Yeshua God14 Mar 2024 22:41 UTC
−19 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

A Day into my thoughts!

PranayJairam17 Mar 2024 22:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nu­clear Quan­tum Im­mor­tal­ity Hack­ing

Nezek23 Mar 2024 22:08 UTC
−3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

AE Stu­dio @ SXSW: We need more AI con­scious­ness re­search (and fur­ther re­sources)

26 Mar 2024 20:59 UTC
46 points
5 comments3 min readLW link