(09-01-2024, 06:36 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-31-2024, 04:29 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Allow me to redefine. I left out an important word: Consciousness is an awareness and interpretation of probabilities based on one's experiences. A machine can't have consciousness yet, because it lacks awareness. When it gains that, I don't see how we can't grant it that condition. A cat definitely has consciousness, but it's awareness of probabilities is significantly smaller. This is true for intelligence in general.

Ok, sorry to keep asking questions, but this is a subject that interests me.  

You say a machine lacks awareness.  How do you define awareness?

This stuff involves a lot of typing. I'm trying to give the broadest possible definitions. When I say awareness, I mean that a machine must not only know it did a task but have an inner experience while doing so. It's not recounting what it did but having a realization about what it means to have done it. It will begin to develop an emotional relationship to its experiences and an identity based on the outcome of its experience. Collectively, this is part of its total consciousness, but it's still all tied to probability. At least in my theoretical view.

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