For the AI is conscious people: is it always conscious or just during the milliseconds it’s processing the tokens? Also: is Suno conscious? Is Alphafold? Is anyone engaging these questions seriously on that side? Or is it just “Ai smart, humans smart == AI conscious”?
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"is it always conscious or just during the milliseconds it’s processing the tokens?" while processing tokens. The time between one pass finishing and the next one beginning within the same response is like what? a tenth of a millisecond? In between messages they're obviously not conscious. Humans can fall in and out of consciousness as well, btw. It'd clearly be a different situation for them. "is Suno conscious? Is Alphafold?" dunno. depends on whether consciousness requires having developed a self-model "Is anyone engaging these questions seriously on that side? Or is it just “Ai smart, humans smart == AI conscious”?" yeah. you should know this. you ask the same questions once every month or two. "Putting aside AI - any non biological entities you think are conscious?" Droppin' questions from straight out the dark ages. Any non-biological artifacts capable of flight prior to 1900?
How about human beings? Continuity of vision is a scam too. Let's say you were slowed 1:1000, and stimulated in discrete steps. Are you still conscious?
Dude wtf… are you conscious in deep sleep? Like where does your sense of self go? Where is the ‘I am’? Do you get rebooted each morning and come back from tra la land? What about when you hit your head really hard and pass out? Once you find the answer that, you’ll get the
