Is AI conscious? It depends what consciousness is
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WALL STREET JOURNAL — The dominant scientific assumption for more than a century has been that consciousness is produced by the brain. According to this view, awareness arises when matter—in the form of neural circuits—processes information with sufficient complexity.
If that assumption is correct, then in principle there is no reason machines couldn’t eventually become conscious as well. A sufficiently advanced computer might simply replicate the relevant processes.
Yet despite enormous advances in neuroscience, the mechanism by which the brain generates subjective experience remains unknown.
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