| Replicating cognitive functions, even emotion, is to replicate a mechanism for registering the *content* of consciousness. the experience of pure consciousness suggests human consciousness has the ability to transcend its own functioning. this becomes clear criteria to say something displays a human type pf consciousness.
The biology of the human system *is* a quantum collapse, so the information within that collapse, as a whole, is experienced as what we, from the subjective side, call emotion.
So an AI system that could transcend its own functioning (refining its own functioning in the process) and had biological components that matched ours, would be conscious in the way we are. What would such a being be like? |