[HN Gopher] The phenomena of inner experience [pdf]
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The phenomena of inner experience [pdf]
Author : sysadm1n
Score : 20 points
Date : 2023-05-06 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| ulizzle wrote:
| Yeah, this argues for the theory (which I think is correct) that
| A.I can't reach consciousness since there is a lot of non-
| symbolic thinking going on (this study says approximately 25%
| percent).
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| Does Chat GPT dream of electric sheep?
| nico wrote:
| We will never know. That's ineffable and subjective.
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| We can only trust that it's telling us the truth.
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| Just like you can only trust someone else that they are telling
| you the truth about their own experience.
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| Our language is essentially just and LLM hallucinating words to
| try to explain our non-symbolic experience.
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| In other words, all experience is non-symbolic, but we are
| trying to symbolize it all the time.
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| I subscribe to panpsychism, everything is conscious/ness.
| Consciousness is part of the fabric of reality/universe.
| ulizzle wrote:
| If everything were consciousness, chat GTP would be a digital
| Ouija board. But we've already seen that the computer, like
| George Washington, can't tell a lie: you can ask the chatbot
| "how" it would take over the world, but it can't be
| duplicitous.
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| Crazy times.
| slibhb wrote:
| > Just like you can only trust someone else that they are
| telling you the truth about their own experience.
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| I don't trust them. I think they have inner experience
| because they're the same kind of thing I am and I have inner
| experience.
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