Consciousness monism is incoherent if one maintains that there is an objective reality at all.
If one rejects objective reality (a reality independent of oneself, or any self-aware conscious entity) then all bets are off. But I guess there are "AI fanboys" (as I understand what you mean) who seem to dismiss consciousness, or have the delusion that it is just "information processing", or "patterns" of neural activity. Even the latest neurobiology on how the brain processes taste identifies the critical tole of the *neurobiochemical* SATB2 - "a 733 amino-acid homeodomain-containing human protein with a molecular weight of 82.5 kDa encoded by the SATB2 gene on 2q33." I.e. it's complicated. But how much "unity" consciousness is is an open question: https://www.academia.edu/34679385/PANPSYCHISM_IN_THE_FIRST_PERSON by Michel Bitbol A central presupposition of science is that objectivity is universal. This does not only create a blindspot in knowledge, but also forces one to ignore it. Several strategies were accordingly adopted to overcome this ignorance, along with the standard divide between continental and analytic philosophy. One of them is Phenomenology, with its project of stripping the layers of interpretation by way of a complete suspension of judgment (epochè), and evaluating any claim of knowledge from such a basis of “pure consciousness”. Another one is pan-experientialist metaphysics, that puts back pure experience in the very domain that was deprived of it by the act of objectification. I compare these two approaches, thereby establishing a hierarchy of radicality between avoiding the blindspot from the outset and compensating for it retrospectively. @philipthrift On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 4:25:30 PM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > Are AI fanboys aware of the fact that consciousness is a unity ? For > example, hearing something and seeing something don't happen in 2 > independent consciousnesses, but happen in only 1 consciousness. Also, > split brain patients show 2 different consciousness, for example one being > theist, the other atheist, and so on. If AI is to be conscious, then what > will decide the unification of different "information processings" ? If for > example that AI has 2 modules: one that "process" sounds and one that > "process" images, how do you know if there are 2 conscious AIs there or > only 1 ? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2c931ccb-098f-40c8-9fdc-66d0e6e339b5%40googlegroups.com.
