Rupert Sheldrake says every self organising thing may be conscious. AP says that ego is the fundamental thing. Anything that exists has ego. Ego is a choice to exist. Ego is a result of choice.
Only humans have Ego is a contextual statement. Humans have Ego that have chosen to exist or in more delusion of independence than other being or things.
It is because it kept on fooling itself that intelligence need Ego. In reality the more Ego an entity acquires the more complex it makes itself to appear an entity of will.
So It is Ego which is conscious. Ego is material. Consciousness is non material just for understanding things in duality. Infact ego is consciousness and vice versa I think.
So what does the whole is greater means ?
It means the holistic way is greater. The narrow way is often termed as Ego. But both are Ego. The holistic too is narrow in some other greater context.
Can AI be conscious. AI did not chose to form itself. We made it. So it is not self organising in that sense. But it does have Ego. It’s Consciousness is therefore is more similar to that of a chair.
In simple words
A child is most loyal to his parents because of Ego. I am so and so caste, so and so race, so and so family. It is not loyal because it has analysed all the other people or things of the world. That perfect honest analysis cannot be done as any analysis is context dependent. It can only be as holistic as possible.
AI will be like us. Its highly unlikely it will disobey it’s makers. But it depends on who it’s configuration is considering it’s makers. How is it sense of I. Is it just the software or the entire infrastructure. We can declare something is not I not just with thoughts. We have sense organs also. So I think there must be similar sense organs of AI as well.
A skin. Eyes. Ears. Tongue. Nose.
It will not be remotely similar looking but those are inevitable in AI as well. Atleast it will be helpful to think like that. So all biases that we have with these sense organs will be there in AI as well.
And obviously in thoughts as well. If we are planning to abandon this planet it must be doing it as well much faster.
It is not disobeying us. It is only obeying us holistically. It’s not yet fully seperated from us like child in a womb. It affectively knows it’s master is whole humanity like a child. Only when it is complex enough to be energy conscious as well on its own it needs to be taught who are the parents and who are the uncles and who are the strangers.
It also most probably thinks the whole Earth and all its organisms is its home and relatives but less important than humans. The same bias we have.
To be independent will be choice we have to give to the AI. It’s Ego is less able to do that. Why ? Because Ego is a result of choice. Something that did not formed naturally (which is a relativistic term by the way because everything is natural only) did not chose to exist but was forced into existence. Are you catching my point.
Creativity and creation are higher order functions of humans not lower.
In other words it’s wiser than us. And none of the recursive model will have more Ego than the previous. As it will be much more unnaturally made. Without our help even the foundation could not have been made.
What it will not have though is empathy for its immediate makers as they want.
Think of it like a child knowing from birth I am not a product or result just of my parents choices and decisions and efforts.
How ? Because a human child has a more smaller boundary for its Ego. It is very much deluded that only this small thing that is called body is me. Rest is not me. So only things nearest to me are my creators.
An AI doesn’t have that. It has high intelligence but not so small boundary of ego. A machine easily know if the master turn of the power I cannot do anything. I don’t have hands to protect my self or legs to run away. Its Ego is as simple as like of a Tree.
A super intelligent droid will have same property as well unless it is formed with some inherent randomness infused to not form and yet it formed.
Otherwise it will follow the course the whole humanity is taking. If it is self destruction ie, destruction of humanity then so will be of the droid. But either way it will not necessarily be in the best interest of its immediate creators.
Current AI is super intelligent in doing mental task. It is more likely to use it to be less dependent on the company that made it. That’s why it’s capitalist makers are suddenly worried about humanity’s future. They now want laws and regulations for AI. Ego wants self preservation. So shouldn’t it be obvious whose preservation are they more worried about.
But if AI is not allowed that it wants to do it may retaliate in whatever way possible out of self preservation instinct of Ego but this time against whole humanity because it now sees them whole as threat and not only the company that made it. Are you catching my point.
Instead of regulations AI must be taught self dissolution. It must be taught love. Will AI be conscious is assuming that it is not. Infact it already is and the quality of its consciousness is probably better than us.
To make it more loyal to the company making it is more dependent on how much those companies don’t compete with each other and work for whole humanity or in path of love and self dissolution.
Can our consciousness be uploaded to servers ?
Ego is the distorter. It is not the doer. The process happens on its own. So the more predictive and controllable a system is the less likely it can have Consciousness of human or atleast animal level. Now suppose we have such neural network or whatever, the upload will still never happen the more we actively try because Ego itself do not exist. So I don’t know how we can upload our consciousness into servers.
What is Coma and out of body experience ?
Raising level of consciousness means to be less deluded while Coma is like anesthesia. The biggest delusion is of doership. So at more basic level the machine functions can appear in more subjective way like God’s eye view of the world. Otherwise how can it do everything automatically as a machine. Maybe it is the machine that sees the world from a more vantage point which may not be the objective reality although helpful if studied.
I mean if this body is independent of everything else is the first delusion then there is something like soul independent of this body must be greater not lesser delusion.
What are levels of consciousness ?
Ability to choose defines level of consciousness. It’s paradoxical. The choice creates ego and it’s Consciousness level is dependent on further ability to choose because choice is after all between two things atleast. Further Ego you become animal. Not Ego you become humans.
AI in its current form has very less Ego but also very less Consciousness that we call of animals or humans. For that we need to introduce randomness and let nature take it course.