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Neurogence16 karma

I had an orgasm/ejaculation in a dream once. It felt identical to the real thing, but in the real world, I had no erection at all. Do you think I can find a way to replicate this?

Neurogence3 karma

Do you think strong artificial intelligence will be conscious? Or will it strictly be "intelligent?" It seems that most of the people working on this, are working on artificial intelligence, but not on "artificial consciousness." The distinction between intelligence/consciousness is very important, but is unfortunately, often ignored.

Neurogence2 karma

I'll have to read your book! This issue is barely addressed anywhere. I think it's only people that are truly conscious who care about whether strong AI will be conscious or not, haha.

While artificial intelligence is very exciting, a superintelligent system that is also conscious is what would be truly impressive.

Neurogence1 karma

People won't believe that AI is conscious. But admittedly, they'll have good reason to not simply believe they are conscious.

The only way I can think of is if we eventually have an actual "scientific" understanding of consciousness. That way we might be able to prove that the AI is conscious, sort of. Another way is, when humans can connect and merge their consciousness with each other, perhaps they will be able to compare what it feels like, to when they connect their consciousness to an AI consciousness. If it feels similar, perhaps we'll be able to say that the AI is conscious.