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Can computers be conscious? Or more specifically, can today's computers fully emulate the way in which organisms compute minds?

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The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis

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It is basically impossible to determine if a computer program generates conscious experience by merely observing its performance; a test for consciousness must take internal structure into account.
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Paper's argument against behavioral tests for consciousness, establishing why MCH requires internal analysis

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We hypothesize that general computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousness, and that successful implementation can be established via analysis or testing.
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our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also suggests that there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.quote0.821
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Different learning systems facing similar computational problems will converge to similar consciousness-like solutions, including potentially biological and artificial systemshypothesis0.808
Extension of the Universality Hypothesis to consciousness: if consciousness solves a well-defined computational problem, different systems will discover it independently
General computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousnesshypothesis0.807
CIMC's central testable hypothesis grounding the entire research program
No current AI systems are conscious.claim0.805
Overall assessment of current state; qualified by possibility.
It is an open question whether simulating a conscious mind requires far more resolution than the relatively slow and sparse communications between billions of biological neurons, or whether current digital substrates suffice.claim0.804
Paper identifies as a key uncertainty limiting the Extended Machine Consciousness Hypothesis
will different systems facing similar computational problems converge to similar solutions, including consciousness?question0.803
Key question for the Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and the universality hypothesis extension
It is possible that one day computer programs designed for cognition might be able to pick out centers and rank-order them by degree of lifehypothesis0.802
Alexander's tentative speculation about computational alternatives to human observers for center-detection
Digital minds with humanlike capabilities could think at least thousands of times, and perhaps millions of times, faster than humans given sufficient hardwarehypothesis0.801
Grounds the subjective speed dimension of super-beneficiary status