I could believe consciousness arose more than once in the tree of life (convergent evolution has happened for other things like eyes and flight).But also, it’s probably a sliding scale, and the simple ancestor may well be at least minimally conscious.
in which case consciousness would seem easy to reproduce (wire together some ~1,000 nerves).
Fair point. AI could well do this (and go as far as uploading into much larger biological structures, as I pointed to above).
I don’t think this is likely to happen though, absent something like moral realism being true, centred around sentient experiences, and the AI discovering this.
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I could believe consciousness arose more than once in the tree of life (convergent evolution has happened for other things like eyes and flight).
But also, it’s probably a sliding scale, and the simple ancestor may well be at least minimally conscious.
Fair point. AI could well do this (and go as far as uploading into much larger biological structures, as I pointed to above).
I don’t think this is likely to happen though, absent something like moral realism being true, centred around sentient experiences, and the AI discovering this.