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SomeoneSomewhere1984 t1_jdlpydv wrote

Reply to comment by GodzlIIa in What happens if it turns out that being human is not that difficult to duplicate in a machine? What if we're just ... well ... copyable? by RamaSchneider

I think it may achieve conscious, but a different kind of conscious to what we experience.

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GodzlIIa t1_jdls560 wrote

It's very possible. But weird to think about. I mean is there even different types of consciousness? Different ways to obtain consciousness, sure I can see that. But is the end result different?

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electric_ember t1_jdlvilo wrote

Your conscious experience is very different from the conscious experience of someone who is blind and deaf

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GodzlIIa t1_jdlwpw7 wrote

My experiences may differ but my consciousness is the same. We are both humans after all, if I had been born without eyes and everything else the same, I would be a much different person, but the same consciousness.

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OriginalCompetitive t1_jdmale5 wrote

There’s really no way to know, though. When a great painter is “in the zone,” they might well be experiencing a mode of consciousness that is unavailable to others. Not just a different experience, but perhaps a completely different way of existing. But they would never know, because to them it’s normal and they assume everyone else feels the same.

A smaller example might be self-talk. Most people apparently have a voice in their head. But some do not. I don’t, actually, and don’t understand how people who do can live a normal life that way.

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Lysmerry t1_jdo54ga wrote

I see a consciousness that easily can convince us it is depressed, or schizophrenic but does not have the same experience as a human with those disorders (though the whole process of creating a being to be depressed is an ethical landmine in itself.) We want to replicate ourselves, but more we want an AI that can fool us well enough to be a source of comfort or insight.

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