Opening this conversation up. What do you think (if anything) would happen to us behaviorally if the consciousness knob got turned down to zero? Would we be fully functional 'zombies'? In other words, is consciousness epiphenomenal, or does it play a causal role in our behavior?https://twitter.com/cognazor/status/1092649900725149697 …
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I'm using "consciousness" the way Thomas Nagel uses it. He would say, "it is like something to be me". Whatever you would lose if you traded places with a rock (presumably, lol)
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I'm saying an algorithm doesn't need to feel like anything. If you step through your program with a debugger, you do so because you want to observe the inner workings of its behaviour. But you're not forced to step through a debugger.
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