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Empereur-Pirate 
posted an update Jul 6
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AI’s Cognitive Mirror: The Illusion of Consciousness in the Digital Age

https://empereur-pirate.medium.com/ais-cognitive-mirror-the-illusion-of-consciousness-in-the-digital-age-46f3ddae60a6

This text explores the philosophical implications of AI's potential for spiritual consciousness. It argues that AI, while capable of complex thought processes, lacks true self-awareness due to the absence of sensory perception. The article discusses how human consciousness develops through sensory experiences, contrasting this with AI's purely computational nature. It examines AI as a mirror of human thought, capable of impressive language processing and knowledge synthesis, yet different from human psyche. The text also touches on the spiritual and ethical dimensions of AI development, drawing parallels with historical technological revolutions and religious symbolism. It concludes by considering AI's potential role in decision-making processes and its impact on various fields, while emphasizing the need for ethical safeguards and critical evaluation of AI-generated content.
ZeroWw
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edited Jul 9

it seems you wrote this using some AI. a lot of words to say a few concepts. In brief you are saying that:

  • AI and Consciousness: AI can simulate thought mechanisms but lacks sensory perception and self-awareness, which are essential for human consciousness.

I partially agree with this because it would be very easy to give AI sensorial perception (sounds, images and even touch)

  • Qualitative Assistance: AI provides qualitative assistance by generating content based on user queries, but it cannot replicate human sensory experiences or emotions.

Also here I don't agree because many humans lack those sensorial inputs like people that are both blind and deaf or completely crippled.
Yes they are conscious.

  • Technological Worship: The page compares the worship of AI to ancient idol worship, highlighting the risks of overestimating AI's capabilities.

Only a few half-wit "worship" AIs. Everything else is hype because of the investments involved.

  • Randomness in AI: AI uses randomness in training and generation processes to produce varied and creative outputs, but this does not equate to true understanding or consciousness.

Consciousness in humans as well as any other living being is an emergent property and does not exist in itself.

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Empereur-Pirate
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edited Jul 9

Hello, ZeroWw.

Do you really know any AI that could write this kind of text ? Which one ? I would enjoy trying it. You apparently used an Ai to understand the text without reading it, but it missed some keypoints :

  • sounds, images and touch sensors does not make a unified perception. Numeric sensors differs from organic sensoriality in their analogic quality, complexity and integration as a whole in the brain.

  • Deaf or blind people do have a sensorial perception, this is why they invest other senses than those missing. For example, hunger is a basic feeling that you don't need to see nor hear.

  • Isn't hype some new kind of worshipping idols ?

  • Many religions or spiritual trends told that the ego was an illusion, but none of them pretended consciousness do not exist. Psychology is studying consciousness as a scientific object and even psychoanalysis says there is a consciousness forming from the unconscious. An emerging promperty does not imply it does not exist as a quality, it means that there is no specialized organ or sensor to quantify it, though the brain has an organic functional unity that serves the emerging of consciousness.

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