{"id":155217,"date":"2023-01-12T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ai-wont-be-conscious-and-here-is-why-a-reply-to-susan-schneider"},"modified":"2023-01-12T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:22:19","slug":"ai-wont-be-conscious-and-here-is-why-a-reply-to-susan-schneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/ai-wont-be-conscious-and-here-is-why-a-reply-to-susan-schneider","title":{"rendered":"AI won\u2019t be conscious, and here is why (A reply to Susan Schneider)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-wont-be-conscious-and-here-is-why-a-reply-to-susan-schneider2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you watched the debate live, you know that, at the very end, I wanted to reply to a point made by Susan but couldn\u2019t, since we ran out of time. The goal of this essay is to put my reply on the record in writing, so to take it out of my system. Before I do that, however, I need to give some context to those who didn\u2019t watch the debate live and don\u2019t have a subscription to the IAI to watch it before reading this essay. If you did watch the debate, you can skip ahead to the section \u2018My missing reply.<\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, my position is that we have no reason to believe that silicon computers will ever become conscious. I cannot refute the hypothesis categorically, but then again, I cannot categorically refute the hypothesis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\" target=\"_blank\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> either, as the latter is <i>logically<\/i> coherent. Appeals to logical coherence mean as little in the conscious AI debate as they do in the Flying Spaghetti Monster context. The important point is not what is <i>logically<\/i> coherent or what can be categorically refuted, but what hypothesis we have good reasons to entertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you watched the debate live, you know that, at the very end, I wanted to reply to a point made by Susan but couldn\u2019t, since we ran out of time. The goal of this essay is to put my reply on the record in writing, so to take it out of my system. Before [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}