I can run a detailed simulation of kidney function, exquisitely accurate down to the molecular level, on the very iMac I am using to write these words. SUGGESTED READING Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious By Susan Schneider But just like the FSM, I don’t think we have any good reason to take the hypothesis seriously at all. I admittedly can’t categorically refute the hypothesis, for the same reason that I can’t categorically refute the FSM. To me, the hypothesis of ‘conscious AI’ is just about as plausible as that of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM). This question is very close to my heart, for I’ve been a computer engineer for longer than I’ve been a philosopher.
So, to me the question translates as: can private consciousness potentially occur in association with silicon computers? But private conscious inner life, seemingly separate from the rest of nature and delineated by the boundaries of a physical entity, is clearly something that has emerged in conjunction with biology. As a metaphysical idealist, I believe consciousness isn’t generated by any substrate-biological or otherwise-for it is primary.
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I recently took part in a debate organised by the IAI-featuring Donald Hoffman and Susan Schneider, next to yours truly-on the question of whether silicon computers running Artificial Intelligence (AI) software will ever become conscious.
Bernardo Kastrup reflects on the debate and his disagreement with Susan Schneider. Does consciousness only arise in biological beings? Or, is it possible that a computer that observes, interacts, and represents its own internal state to itself might also give rise to consciousness? These were some of the questions posed to Bernardo Kastrup, Susan Schneider and Donald Hoffman in a recent debate for the IAI, ‘Consciousness in the machine’.
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