I would say that personhood arises from ability to solve complex incentive gradients or something...
In general I would say something like, though I’m not sure that I’ve actually got these right according to my own opinions and I might need to revisit this,
Consciousness: the amount of justified-by-causal-path mutual information imparted to a system by the information it integrates from the shape of energy propagations has with an external system
Intelligence: when a system seeks structures that create consciousness that directs useful action reliably
Cognition: strong overlap with “intelligence”, the network structure of distilling partial computation results into useful update steps that coherently transform components of consciousness into useful intelligent results
Moral patienthood: a system that seeks to preserve its shape (note that this is more expansive than cognition!)
I would say that personhood arises from ability to solve complex incentive gradients or something...
In general I would say something like, though I’m not sure that I’ve actually got these right according to my own opinions and I might need to revisit this,
Consciousness: the amount of justified-by-causal-path mutual information imparted to a system by the information it integrates from the shape of energy propagations has with an external system
Intelligence: when a system seeks structures that create consciousness that directs useful action reliably
Cognition: strong overlap with “intelligence”, the network structure of distilling partial computation results into useful update steps that coherently transform components of consciousness into useful intelligent results
Moral patienthood: a system that seeks to preserve its shape (note that this is more expansive than cognition!)