Is Consciousness An Artificial Intelligence? 👾
Is Consciousness AI?
There's not necessarily a tough distinction between the type of intelligence an AI would possibly possess and human intelligence. "Artificial" designates the origin of the intelligence, not its properties essentially.
Since there is every reason to believe that human intelligence happened more or less naturally, instead of being meticulously designed by human-like agents, there does not appear to be any sense during which our intelligence may well be "artificial". If it is not natural, what is?
Likening It To The Computational World
I could be conflating (computational) intelligence with consciousness, that is nonetheless to be outlined and drawn. So far, there's nothing to suggest that these two are aspects of a similar development, and one ought to additionally take into account the preconscious and unconscious factors relevant to human experience.
Consciousness isn't mattered of top-down software programming as if the brain were a hierarchical management station. Instead, we might imagine the creation of AI through microfabrication of neural networks, that permits for the bottom-up passage of code and knowledge.
A Different Outlook
Leading AI researchers have repeatedly tried and failed by reissuing the symbolic-descriptive, top-down approach that programmers use for software. That approach is as misguided to AI analysis because it is for unmanned drones or different such hardware, therefore the growing focus on light-based neural networks.
That could be understood as saying we all know what the advanced computational functions of the human brain are however we do not know how to code them. However, i believe it's even worse than that - we do not understand what computational functions cause consciousness. They could not also be 'complex' - nobody knows.
Will We Be Able To Create/Control Others?
As somebody with a dominant leading towards non-dualistic materialism, I realise it annoying (and even perhaps worrying) that consciousness is therefore resistant to reductionism. If you can build an aware object (i.e. a brain) in a womb, why cannot you create one in a factory? If there's no reason why not then why is it we will not even see how to begin?
Maybe we are the ultimate form of AI, already. Let us imagine that we are just part of a huge science experiment, and we were "created" by a very advanced and ancient species who used the planet as their "petri dish" millions of years ago. If we were deliberately grown, that would automatically make us AI, right?
To the question in your title, my Magic 8-Ball says:
It is possible that the phenomenon of consciousness requires a self-organizing system, like the brain’s physical structure. If so, then current machines will come up short.
Interesting write up @arckrai
Perhaps, if not natural or scientific, it could be ... spiritual. #ibelieve
When the conditions are right it’s just a matter of time before intelligence arises – just like life itself. I also think all life is ‘conscious,’ i.e., aware of its environment or it wouldn’t be alive very long.
You’re right about AI programmers using top-down approaches to simulate intelligence but that is not the same as creating a sentient being. To do that I believe programmers will need to introduce some sort of parasitic forces like we see in nature. It is the work of parasites that create a kind of arms race producing better and better organisms by way of natural selection. It’s a bottom-up process that naturally leads to intelligence.
I think AI is a copy of our consiousness and this world is a copy too. They copy the copy again. I still believe our consiousness is connected with our original. Our original is not AI, AI is evil (the opposite of live).
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