Can Computational Intelligence Model Phenomenal Consciousness?
Philosophies July 27, 2023 E. C. Garrido Merchán, Sara Lumbreras 3 citations
Consciousness and intelligence are not necessarily linked. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have been used to argue that machines capable of human-like problem solving might be conscious, but this analogy has troubling social implications, such as potentially granting machines more rights than people with disabilities who cannot solve the same problems. The authors argue that problem-solving does not imply consciousness and that phenomenal consciousness cannot be modeled by computational intelligence. They propose an objective measure of computational intelligence across humans, animals, and machines, and treat phenomenal consciousness as a dichotomous variable to show it is absent in machines.