You could create an ai that has behavior similar to anger, and displays intention, but having subjective experience is another matter. Explaining subjective experience in terms of quarks is rather like trying to explain quantum mechanics in terms of aerodynamics. You will never get there. Not because subjective experience defies the laws of nature in some mysterious way, but because you would simply be going in the wrong direction. And, the other direction is not getting smaller, but rather a lower level of abstraction.
We have an intuitive sense of how the physical universe works that we have evolved, and this intuition is pretty accurate at the scale we live. Physics has progressed by building from models based on this intuition, and paring aspects down that are simply unnecessary, through Occam’s razor, or just wrong, through experimentation.
The problem with this is that starting with the model our evolved intuition has given us skips a layer of abstraction. We have clearly seen how this intuition has failed us at much larger and smaller scales. In both cases we have found that measurements depend on the observer.
The reality that we live in is composed of experience. The yard stick of physics is how accurate a model predicts our experiences. This is where we should start. At least we should incorporate how we get the abstract notions of space-time and matter-energy from experiences, rather then skipping over that abstraction, and seeing matter-energy as something concrete leaving our experiences mysterious.
You could create an ai that has behavior similar to anger, and displays intention, but having subjective experience is another matter. Explaining subjective experience in terms of quarks is rather like trying to explain quantum mechanics in terms of aerodynamics. You will never get there. Not because subjective experience defies the laws of nature in some mysterious way, but because you would simply be going in the wrong direction. And, the other direction is not getting smaller, but rather a lower level of abstraction.
We have an intuitive sense of how the physical universe works that we have evolved, and this intuition is pretty accurate at the scale we live. Physics has progressed by building from models based on this intuition, and paring aspects down that are simply unnecessary, through Occam’s razor, or just wrong, through experimentation.
The problem with this is that starting with the model our evolved intuition has given us skips a layer of abstraction. We have clearly seen how this intuition has failed us at much larger and smaller scales. In both cases we have found that measurements depend on the observer.
The reality that we live in is composed of experience. The yard stick of physics is how accurate a model predicts our experiences. This is where we should start. At least we should incorporate how we get the abstract notions of space-time and matter-energy from experiences, rather then skipping over that abstraction, and seeing matter-energy as something concrete leaving our experiences mysterious.