Neurons and neurochemical processes are in physical reality. Qualia are in the simulation, not physical reality. We can’t call on them to do physical work.
If you understand the precise referent of phenomenal experience, you can create an experiencing observer: a mind that hears its own voice and recognizes it as its own. Until then you can only recognize sentient behavior, like you do in cats.
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Let’s say a team creates an android implementing a self-modeling AI control system. This entity claims to be phenomenally conscious, experiencing sounds, sights, and even feeling emotions and physical pain. How do we confirm this claim?
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We can check if the exposure to stimuli leads to the instantiation of models of these stimuli, if the attention to these models leads to an instantiation of the model of that access, and if the self reporting is reflecting the content of these models.
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What does it mean for a software defined observer to “consume” phenomology and “experience” it. Creating an event listener will not be sufficient?
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It becomes apparent when you realize what a phenomenal experience is. Phenomology is for guiding responses. It is the most relevant sensory information that is isolated by your environment models and physiological behavior drivers to identify and respond to resources and threats.
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