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Consciousness and Artificial Life

Conference by Takuya Niikawa (Kobe University)

ABSTRACT

This talk aims to develop a bold view that some disembodied AIs, such as desktop computers and smartphones, can have consciousness. First, I argue for the strong primitivism of cognitive phenomenology, according to which non-sensory mental processes have distinctive cognitive phenomenology, the existence of which does not depend on co-occurring sensory experiences. Given this, I propose, as a promising hypothesis, that disembodied AIs can have a phenomenal experience of formally/logically thinking, and suggest how we can examine this hypothesis experimentally.