The science of consciousness has made tremendous progress over the last 20 years.
This website is tentative to explain the latest discovery and answer an old question: can a computer be sentient?
Here are the sources:
- Sentience, by Nicholas Humphrey
- Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, by Anil Seth https://amzn.eu/d/40XvLYb
- Josha Bach:
Researchers
Josha bach Daniel DennettDavid ChalmersMarvin MinskyRodney BrooksEric SchwitzgebelSelected Papers
AI Consciousness is Inevitable: A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective.Consciousness, Machines, and Moral StatusConscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalismThought experiments
There are classics, but confusing and useless.
The hard problem of consciousnessThe Chinese room argumentOther references
VideosHuman digital cloningThe Nature of Categories from Douglas HofstadterFrom arxivThe_Computational_Boundary_of_a_Self_Developmental.pdf2286.2KB