This comes down to a HUGE unknown—what features of reality need to be replicated in another medium in order to result in sufficiently-close results
That’s at least two unknowns: what needs to be replicated in order to get the objective functioning; and what needs to be replicated to get the subjective awarness as well.
Which is all just to say—isn’t it much more likely that the problem has been solved, and there are people who are highly confident in the solution because they have verified all the steps that led them there, and they know with high confidence which features need to be replicated to preserve consciousness...
And how do they that, in terms of the second problem? The final stage would need to be confirmation of subjective awareness. We don’t have instruments for that, and it’s no good just asking the sim, since a functional duplicate is likely to answer yes, even if it’s a zombie.
And that’s why it it can be argued that consciousness is a uniqueness difficult problem, beyond the “non-existent proof”
because “find the correct solution” and “convince people of a solution” are mostly independent problems,
That’s not just a theoretical possibility People , eg. Dennett,keep claiming to have explained consciousness, and other people keep being unconvinced because they notice they have skipped the hard part.
“That’s just saying he hasn’t explained some invisible essence of consciousness , equivalent to élan vital”.
“Qualia aren’t invisible, they are the most obvious thing there is to the person that has them”.
@Dagon
That’s at least two unknowns: what needs to be replicated in order to get the objective functioning; and what needs to be replicated to get the subjective awarness as well.
And how do they that, in terms of the second problem? The final stage would need to be confirmation of subjective awareness. We don’t have instruments for that, and it’s no good just asking the sim, since a functional duplicate is likely to answer yes, even if it’s a zombie.
And that’s why it it can be argued that consciousness is a uniqueness difficult problem, beyond the “non-existent proof”
That’s not just a theoretical possibility People , eg. Dennett,keep claiming to have explained consciousness, and other people keep being unconvinced because they notice they have skipped the hard part.
“That’s just saying he hasn’t explained some invisible essence of consciousness , equivalent to élan vital”.
“Qualia aren’t invisible, they are the most obvious thing there is to the person that has them”.