>>12370838>Oh, so you aren't a physicalist. I assumed most people here would be.Qualia disproves physicalism. I have no idea why people believe in it.
>But if we want to say there is something about consciousness that goes beyond physical processes, then it's still unclear that whatever that is also don't manifest in non-biological systems somehow. This extra property that governs consciousness is completely invisible for us in biological systems, so it probably also will be when we look at an AI for example.It'd be even more elusive, since the behavior of humans is driven by neurochemical systems evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Humans experience emotions, feel pleasure, feel pain, and have behavioral dispositions that are clearly visible externally. Without those things, an AGI may very well be completely indistinguishable from a "dumb" AI, have no motivation to do anything, experience no pain, pleasure, or sensory qualia, and just sit there. How do you emulate analogous things in a completely different substrate? Can you even do it? We have no idea.
>Which leaves us at the exact same question: what makes biology special?Neurons are extremely dynamic, energy efficient, and space efficient. Computers with comparable processing abilities to brains are literally the size of buildings, use enormous amounts of energy, and produce enormous amounts of waste heat, and lack of all the brain's fun features, who are themselves mysterious to us still. One could ask, why and how does the firing of a nociceptor cause the experience of pain? Utter mystery.
