This is quite a good article and more than does the job of setting the tone for today's OLDaily. What we're offered here is an excellent statement of the idea that human consciousness is fundamentally diftinct from artificial intelligence. There's a lot going on in this article, but this captures the flavour of the argumentation: "Unlike computers, even computers running neural network algorithms, brains are the kinds of things for which it is difficult, and likely impossible, to separate what they do from what they are." The article hits on a number of subthemes: the idea of autopoiesis, from the Greek for 'self-production"; the way they differ in how they relate to time; John Searle's biological naturalism; the simulation hypothesis; "and even the basal feeling of being alive". All in all, "these arguments make the case that consciousness is very unlikely to simply come along for the ride as AI gets smarter, and that achieving it may well be impossible for AI systems in general, at least for the silicon-based digital computers we are familiar with." Yeah - but as Anil Seth admits, "all theories of consciousness are fraught with uncertainty."
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