I answered an interesting posit by AI maven Suzanne Gilbert on X today. What are your (human) thoughts?
On AI vs. Human Consciousness - via X (formally Twitter): Source.
From AI expert Suzanne Gilbert - Experienced in designing and building AGI, robotics and quantum computing. Now interested in consciousness technologies.
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Does our human #consciousness have #quantum dynamics? I'm at the Science of Consciousness conference to learn from the best thinkers in the world! What is your PoV? Eyeing how to apply insights to robotic minds. #microtubules #exciting #penroselove
SB: Yes, I've long thought that, ever since I majored in psychology & learned about Phineas Gage (Click Here):
"Phineas P. Gage (1823-1860) was an American railroad construction foreman who survived an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe123. The injury had profound effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life1. Gage is often referred to as the "man who began neuroscience"4."
The iron rod didn't "impart" any new thinking ability. What it did was unrestrict thinking that was already there so that the unfortunate Gage's previously constrained impulses were now freely expressed. The key point is that these (sub)thoughts had existed all along in a quantum realm, both on and off until observed - i.e. until consciousness intervened to gather the subthoughts into a coherent action that was moral and practical. The brain then, acts as a damper, a choosing mechanism, not just a generating mechanism that forms decisions out of nothing. Decisions are a product of random subthoughts, modulated into (hopefully) correct and moral outcomes.
Psychopaths can have an intellectual control of their behavior - they know what actions are bad, but they don't feel it. Still, they can avoid bad outcomes for themselves with logic: I don't want to end up in prison, so I won't kill this person even if it might benefit me in the short run. They tend to be highly intelligent for this reason, like the blind person who relies and develops exceptional listening capability. AI will never develop consciousness in the way it's currently being developed, top-down. Consciousness is an emergent property of evolution of needs & desires meeting increased brainpower to achieve those. AI is just problem solving, not survival enhancement like life-brains are. AI is really SI, Simulated Intelligence.
BTW, the fact that AI will never achieve human like intelligence, grounded in evolutionary goal-seeking to meet needs: hunger, shelter, safety, reproduction and desires: novelty (also helps with meeting needs in a competitive environment), fulfillment, etc., is dispositive towards the existence of God as portrayed in the Bible. If God created Man, he would have been like AI, designed from the top-down instead of evolved from the bottom-up, rule-obeying, goal-seeking, but not driven by needs and desires the way humans are. In some ways, we have more in common with an Amoeba than the most AI advanced robot.
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