RE: Robots with consciousness? Who would've thought?

bradfordmiller — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:14:47 GMT

So I've thought about this problem on and off for years; I'm not sure it can be easily connected to what the impact would be on humans. A more fundamental issue is to decide if you are working on "the hard problem of consciousness" (i.e. qualia or what if "feels like" to be conscious) or the systems problem of consciousness as outlined by Dennett. The latter is far easier to make progress toward (e.g., attention model, choosing a set of (current) goals, metacognition: the marshaling of cognitive resources toward achieving the selected goals, choosing what to learn (essentially designing and performing experiments toward learning something: what scientists, and 8 year olds, typically do).

My own theory is the way we build (computer) processors today isn't really amenable to getting a good "systems level" of such control. But maybe abstraction is all that is needed. The problem is that brains are actually very slow (in terms of signal propagation) but very fast (in terms of decision making).

RE: Robots with consciousness? Who would've thought?

robogary — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 23:03:02 GMT

Researchers havent watched the movie Alien:Covenant.