Steve Dufourny
Steve,
You love to do rambling paternalistic write-ups criticising what I say, but you can’t explain what you think consciousness is, and you can’t explain what you think a mathematical system is or how it works. Your writing is a big, disorganised mess. You need to focus on what you think the issues are, NOT on me.
I’m saying that consciousness is basically the knowledge/ experience/ awareness, possessed by an entity (e.g. a living organism), of what situation is point-of-view true. Consciousness, together with libertarian free will/ agency, is a necessary component of a viable, moving mathematical system.
A computer/ AI is not an overall entity, but there are a lot of very small, interacting parts that can be considered to be low-level entities with their own low-level knowledge/ experience/ awareness of what situation is point-of-view true.
Seemingly, it is only with these very small low-level entities that one might have any hope of correctly symbolically representing their consciousness, in terms of what categories, relationships and numbers together constitute the situation that is point-of-view true. Note that one needs to use algorithmic symbols to represent a situation that "is true".
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AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE ISSUE is the fact that, at the other end of the scale, people are utilising the properties of matter to build planes and computers/ AIs.
In computers/ AIs, people are utilising low-level aspects of the world (voltages, transistors and circuits ) to represent and process manmade written and spoken symbols.
No big surprise: people are intelligent, and they can make machines that fly and machines that can fool naïve, uniformed people into believing that the machine itself is intelligent.
