r/singularity4h agoenergy 97

Interval of consciousness?

Hi all, so recently an interesting though crossed my mind. Not sure if it's discussed before. I've seeing a lot of people discuss the idea of AI "consciousness" as a black and white state (at least most of people do). However, I believe consciousness, just like intelligence, is more of a broad category of characteristics and actions/behaviors, rather than just a single number our output. For instance, when you hear someone say: "That person is smart". Do they mean intelligent because they can recall a lot of facts? Their logical abilities are high? Do they have great emotional intelligence? Maybe their spatial intelligence is an outlier? We know for a fact that there are "more" intelligent breeds of dogs. Or that crows are incredibly smart when compare to other animals such as let's say parrots or snakes. We know that there's a huge difference between a person scoring 150 in their IQ test versus one scoring 100. So clearly there is a lot nuance when it comes to defining intelligence. Now, I believe the same applies to consciousness. As someone who has worked with elderly people with dementia or other neurodegenerative diseases, I can say that their level of "consciousness" is clear

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