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NotACryptoBro t1_jedh4ec wrote

Reply to comment by yeah_i_am_new_here in Thought experiment: we're only [x] # of hardware improvements away from "AGI" by yeah_i_am_new_here

>Truthfully, I don't think we can create consciousness, if that's what you received from my post.

That's actually what I thought, because you wrote that "In my understanding, AGI is the representation of generalized human cognitive abilities in software so ..."

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yeah_i_am_new_here OP t1_jee8f2h wrote

I guess if it's true that consciousness is a cognitive ability, but I don't really think we have any idea what consciousness is or where it comes from. I guess "most likely" it's some kind of cognitive ability, so I hear you there, but I leave that out of my idea of AGI because it's all conjecture. For all I know consciousness comes from your liver.

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NotACryptoBro t1_jeewqdm wrote

>but I don't really think we have any idea what consciousness is or where it comes from

Or if we only think it exists, idk

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