So if a brain or a computer (which are both information processing systems) have awareness, they *are* consciousness, rather than exhibiting/implementing it? That does not seem to be correct. But more crucially, you need to define awareness without consciousness
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Defining Consciousness and Decision-Making in AI Systems
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It does not help if you try to define consciousness via consciousness. I don’t think it’s useful to define decision making in a way that prevents you from deciding whether a decision was a decision
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Non-Apocalyptic AI Science Fiction: Diaspora, Lifecycle, Golem XIV
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Autonomous Decision-Making in AI Systems Without Consciousness
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A roomba decides whether to continue cleaning or go back to the charging station. A self driving car decides whether to slow down or pass the car in front of it. Neither system is conscious.
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Global State Required for Information Recognition and Meaning
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We cannot even recognize or integrate information without reaching some global state that allows to interpret its meaning
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Agent Values Negotiation Shapes Stable Societies
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Values inform policy and are instrumental to the success of agent societies. Agents can negotiate values, but whether their society is stable, harmonic, adaptive and competitive depends on whether they figured out how to agree on the right values.
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Cell Consciousness and Emergent Intelligence Systems
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I don’t know whether individual cells are conscious. How do you know? (If they are, I don’t expect that the consciousness of the cell can communicate with the consciousness forming across cells.)
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Blockchain Consensus: Technical Definition Beyond Social Agreement
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Here, consensus is a technical term that describes for instance the negotiation of a shared representation of everyone’s account balance and transaction status on a blockchain. It’s not a social consensus but a shared, non conflicting representation
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Consciousness Operates Uniformly Across All Minds
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I think that consciousness itself works in the same way across minds
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Consciousness, Observer Construction and Transcendent Value Systems
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Consciousness is constructing an observer, not necessarily a value system. I would like to be integrated in a transcendent value system that is built on truth, love and protection of innocence