Can AI Become Conscious?
All this is underpinned by your definition of conscious.<p>I recall seeing Koch in debate with a philosopher (it was long ago I can&#x27;t recall but one of the big ones: maybe Searle or Dennet) and they were talking past each other.<p>For Koch, at least in this debate, consciousness was something akin to attention. For the philosopher, it was something else entirely (if I remembered, I might be able to guess who it was).<p>Consciousness could mean: making a decision as opposed to having it pre-ordained, or the experience of your senses, or &quot;feelings&quot; or knowing you are a self, or who knows what else.<p>It isn&#x27;t just a computer science issue, it is a philosophical and linguistic one too: just what do you mean by the word.