What do you mean with artificial consciousness to the extend that it’s not intelligence and why do you think the problem is in a form where quantum computers are helpful?
The claim wasn’t that artifactual consciousness wasn’t (likely to be) sufficient for a kind of intelligence, but that they are not coextensive. It might have been clearer to say consciousness is (closer to being) sufficient for intelligence, than intelligence (the way computer scientists often use it) is to being a sufficient condition for consciousness (which is not at all.)
I needn’t have restricted the point to artifact-based consciousness, actually. Consider absence seizures (epilepsy) in neurology. A man can seize (lose “consciousness”) get up from his desk, get the car keys, drive to a mini-mart, buy a pack of cigarettes, make polite chat while he gets change from the clerk, drive home (obeying traffic signals), lock up his car, unlock and enter his house, and lay down for a nap, all in absence seizure state, and post-ictally, recall nothing. (Neurologists are confident these cases withstand all proposals to attribute postictal “amnesia” to memory failure. Indeed, seizures in susceptible patients can be induced, witnessed, EEGed, etc. from start to finish, by neurologists. )
Moral: intelligent behavior occurs, consciousness doesn’t. Thus, not coextensive. I have other arguments, also.
As to your second question, I’ll have to defer an answer for now, because it would be copiously long… though I will try to think of a reply (plus the idea is very complex and needs a little more polish, but I am convinced of its merit. I owe you a reply, though..., before we’re through with this forum.
I have dozens, some of them so good I have actually printed hardcopies of the PDFs—sometimes misplacing the DOIs in the process.
I will get some though; some of them are, I believe, required reading, for those of us looking at the human brain for lessons about the relationship between “consciousness” and other functions. I have a particularly interesting one (74 pages, but it’s a page turner) that I wll try to find the original computer record of. Found it and most of them on PubMed.
If we are in a different thread string in a couple days, I will flag you. I’d like to pick a couple of good ones, so it will take a little re-reading.
What do you mean with artificial consciousness to the extend that it’s not intelligence and why do you think the problem is in a form where quantum computers are helpful?
The claim wasn’t that artifactual consciousness wasn’t (likely to be) sufficient for a kind of intelligence, but that they are not coextensive. It might have been clearer to say consciousness is (closer to being) sufficient for intelligence, than intelligence (the way computer scientists often use it) is to being a sufficient condition for consciousness (which is not at all.)
I needn’t have restricted the point to artifact-based consciousness, actually. Consider absence seizures (epilepsy) in neurology. A man can seize (lose “consciousness”) get up from his desk, get the car keys, drive to a mini-mart, buy a pack of cigarettes, make polite chat while he gets change from the clerk, drive home (obeying traffic signals), lock up his car, unlock and enter his house, and lay down for a nap, all in absence seizure state, and post-ictally, recall nothing. (Neurologists are confident these cases withstand all proposals to attribute postictal “amnesia” to memory failure. Indeed, seizures in susceptible patients can be induced, witnessed, EEGed, etc. from start to finish, by neurologists. ) Moral: intelligent behavior occurs, consciousness doesn’t. Thus, not coextensive. I have other arguments, also.
As to your second question, I’ll have to defer an answer for now, because it would be copiously long… though I will try to think of a reply (plus the idea is very complex and needs a little more polish, but I am convinced of its merit. I owe you a reply, though..., before we’re through with this forum.
Is there an academic paper that makes that argument? If so, could you reference it?
I have dozens, some of them so good I have actually printed hardcopies of the PDFs—sometimes misplacing the DOIs in the process.
I will get some though; some of them are, I believe, required reading, for those of us looking at the human brain for lessons about the relationship between “consciousness” and other functions. I have a particularly interesting one (74 pages, but it’s a page turner) that I wll try to find the original computer record of. Found it and most of them on PubMed.
If we are in a different thread string in a couple days, I will flag you. I’d like to pick a couple of good ones, so it will take a little re-reading.