This post is really interesting!
Do you have any thoughts on why then does psychosis typically suddenly ‘kick in’ in late adolescence / early adulthood? (and why trauma correlates with it and tends to act as that ‘kickstarter’?)
Also any thoughts about delusions? Like how come schizophrenic people will occasionally not just believe in impossible things but very occasionally even random things like ‘I am Jesus Christ’ or ‘I am Napoleon’?
I do not think this is true.
I don’t believe that chatbots are already conscious. Yet I do think we’ll be able to tell. Specifically I think we’ll be able to trace back the specific kind of neural processing that generates beliefs and reports about consciousness, and then see which functional properties this process has that makes it unique compared to non-conscious processing. Then we can look into chatbots brains and see if they’re doing this processing (i.e. see if they’re saying their conscious because they have the mental states we do, or if they’re just mimicing our reports of our own mental states without any of their own)