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Andreas F. Hoffmann's avatar

I would ask what is cause and what effect? Does the conscious mind talk and therefore have a monologue or is it really that the monologue sparks consciousness? I would opt for the first one... Also the parallels between active minds and modern frontier AI models are in my opinion highly overrated. I would argue that AI stands to biological intelligence as a virus relates to life. I put that idea into an article:

https://theafh.substack.com/p/what-viruses-can-teach-us-about-ai?r=42gt5

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Jennie Pakula's avatar

I'm nearly finished Iain McGilchrist's 'The Master and his Emissary', and am also convinced by Erik Larsen's 'Myth of Artificial Intelligence'. The more I understand about human intelligence and the way our minds work, I'm firmly convinced it's a hard no. I think what you're describing is an improved processing of our human artefacts, which we taught it, and I'll be very surprised if that ever results in any kind of consciousness. How would you know, anyway? It might just get good at mimicking consciousness, it's already a wonderful bullsh***er.

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