Could some of today's large neural networks be slightly conscious, some of the time?
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Probably not; I don't think that bacteria can act on a model of their own awareness, whereas cats do, but some neural networks are able to reproduce such models and do inference on them.
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Hard for you to judge as you have no clear definition as far as I have read. But will listen to the podcast ;-)
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Yes, it's hard for me to judge! I've thought enough about consciousness to think that the question whether Ilya is right is harder than most reasonable people make it out to be. But I don't have a formal specification for consciousness that allows to make a proof either way.
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If we account for externalities, it makes the human economy ACT like a nervous system for the planet, keeping things in balance (homeostasis) and preventing /healing injury to environment /ecosystems
Integration of Human Society...
gaiabrain.blogspot.com/2007/09/gaia-b
gaiabrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/biolog
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Oops. The information flowing through the market (network), if we make markets represent environmental costs, would more evoke concepts of sentience rather than consciousness.
Our immune system & many brain functions operate unconsciously
But then, sentience is a precursor to C
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Is a phage conscious when it decides to remove RNA when its environment change? Is DNA conscious when it adapts because genes needs survival? The challenge, you need to work out, is this: Will a simulacrum that has a designer ever be conscious?
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