Consciousness

In the philosophy of mind, the “hard problem” of consciousness gives trouble. Any meaningful discussion of existence, sentience of artificial intelligence, sentience of animals has to recognise the limitations of our knowledge or reject the validity of the question.

• Existence
  Existence itself Is a religious not a scientific concept.
• Consciousness and Science
  Science does not require consciousness to explain human (or any other animal) behaviour If it did It wouldn’t be science
• Conscious is illusionary
  Brain scientists often say that Conscious is illusionary Or an emergent property of neural complexity The logical truth is that Conscious is outside the realm of science. This should not be mistaken for a version of “The God of the Gaps” argument Our experience of human conscious is not a gap It is the totality… Read more: Conscious is illusionary
• The Turing Test
  Alan Turing, probably the greatest figure in the history of 20th Century theoretical computer science and cryptanalysis, in considering the question “can machines think” invented the “Turing Test” (or “Imitation Game” as he originally called it). This sidesteps the hard problem of consciousness by replacing it with a “closely related” easier problem of how do… Read more: The Turing Test