Some people, like Christof Koch, think that a simulation cannot become conscious. The irony is that only simulations can be conscious. Consciousness is a simulated property of a simulated system.
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So the key to creating consciousness is to find what properties a simulation must entail in order to trick part of itself into believing it is experiencing something? (illusionism a la
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The beauty is that the brain itself does not have to be tricked, only the model does, and that is easy to achieve: the brain can just put it in there.
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"easy to achieve" - why haven't we figured it out yet? What is the *actual* hard part in tricking models to believe they have feelings?
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The hard part is in the philosophically “easy” question: how to build the universal modeling engine on which everything else runs.
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