If what you mean by “consciousness” is something like “ability to utter the words ‘I am conscious’ ”, then sure, but then why do we care about the number of neurons required to make a system utter those words? The main thing of interest here is trying to use baselines from neuroscience to infer things about which AI systems are truly conscious (what other debates were you referring to?), in the it’s-something-to-be-like-it sense. Being able to say “I am conscious” does not confer a system moral worth, it is its subjective experience that does that, and the observation that people without a cerebellum can live normal lives doesn’t tell us anything about whether it has affected the intensity of their subjective experience.
Ley’s put it lile this : if you had hours of interaction with this individual you’d have no reason to doubt it’s conscious. I indeed don’t know if it has the exact same sense of consciousnes as someone with a cerebellum but this is also true for everyone else : I don’t know if you and I have the same conscious experience either.
If what you mean by “consciousness” is something like “ability to utter the words ‘I am conscious’ ”, then sure, but then why do we care about the number of neurons required to make a system utter those words? The main thing of interest here is trying to use baselines from neuroscience to infer things about which AI systems are truly conscious (what other debates were you referring to?), in the it’s-something-to-be-like-it sense. Being able to say “I am conscious” does not confer a system moral worth, it is its subjective experience that does that, and the observation that people without a cerebellum can live normal lives doesn’t tell us anything about whether it has affected the intensity of their subjective experience.
Ley’s put it lile this : if you had hours of interaction with this individual you’d have no reason to doubt it’s conscious. I indeed don’t know if it has the exact same sense of consciousnes as someone with a cerebellum but this is also true for everyone else : I don’t know if you and I have the same conscious experience either.
So there is still a possibility that the cerebellum is responsible for some of the inaccessible aspects of consciousness?
I don’t understand what you mean by “inaccessible”