Hi TOK Folks,

  Here is a blog to make you think<https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-and-philosophy/202008/what-does-artificial-intelligence-think-about-consciousness> about mind, consciousness, and the future.

  From a ToK System perspective, the 21st Century sees the transition from the Cultural-Personal into the Digital-MetaCultural dimension, which will be massively shaped by Person-AI interface embedded in the digital landscape (which, of course, is embedded in other landscapes, although, as this blog reminds us, the digital is, in some ways, potentially less embedded in the sense that the mediums of information processing and communication are not based in the Life-Mind world directly).

I believe that if we were to design an AI system based on the language game provided by the ToK System, it would have not screwed up the answer, but would have clearly differentiated self-conscious (Mind3) from sentience/phenomenology (Mind2). Indeed, it would have said that it was "weird" relative to natural consciousness, as it had many features of self-consciousness but lacked sentience.

Best,
Gregg
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