Wow. Either qualia are just an automatic emergent property that all intelligent systems have, or they are some sort of irrelevant illusion … or p-zombies are possible.
Or the relationship (which no-one on this Earth knows) between highly capable machines and qualia has gears. There is a specific way that qualia arise, and it may very well be that highly capable machines of the sort that the dath ilanis want to build can be designed without qualia.
By automatic emergent property I meant something like “qualia emerge from the attentive focus and cross reference of some isolated sensory percept or thought routed one to many across many modules, producing a number of faint subverbal associations that linger for some time in working memory”, and thus is just a natural expected side effect of any brain-like AGI, and thus probably any reasonable DL based AGI (ie transformers could certainly have this property).
Or the relationship (which no-one on this Earth knows) between highly capable machines and qualia has gears. There is a specific way that qualia arise, and it may very well be that highly capable machines of the sort that the dath ilanis want to build can be designed without qualia.
Emergence and epiphenomenalism have no gears.
By automatic emergent property I meant something like “qualia emerge from the attentive focus and cross reference of some isolated sensory percept or thought routed one to many across many modules, producing a number of faint subverbal associations that linger for some time in working memory”, and thus is just a natural expected side effect of any brain-like AGI, and thus probably any reasonable DL based AGI (ie transformers could certainly have this property).
If you can build an AGI without qualia, then humans are unlikely to have quaalia.