What is consciousness? Can it be simulated? If so, is it possible with current hardware? What is thought? Is it an input or an output? Is it voluntary? Is there a gap between stimulus and response? If so, how large is it? What happens there? How do you know?

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(Sleep sir!)

I am well rested (8+hrs/night) and well fed. These are just the questions that run on loop in the back of my head

These are very large questions posed in psychology. Consciousness is primarily the output of a sophisticated network of neurons in the brain which integrate the information fed them by sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system, and also for example in the case of eyesight, conic cells that capture light and change it into chemical electrical signals. Different parts of our brains simultaneously integrate this information through specialized cortexes we're not sure how the specific aspects of function, and color the input with emotions and priorities and sometimes urges to shift attentional focus, deep and shallow processing occur and somehow this information is acted upon through either learned responses such as reflexive actions or somewhat more 'willful' actions our executive/inhibitory brain region (the frontal lobe) push us towards.

The interaction is complex, we don't know exactly how it works at the finite level.

However I can tell you that past the length of strong memory it boils down to we are all machines programmed by emotional weights, survival oriented strategies that adapt to rigid environments, pleasure seeking activities, and very basic primitive hunter/gatherer and mating impulses that drive the rest, and from which the reward system, emotions, etc became derived from over countless iterations of human genesis.

So if you keep everything the same, the current mess where I'm not sure if I'm repeating this all to a machine occurs.

Consciousness is a non reproducible bug of a complex nervous system.

@iiii tell you what I'll let one of you people say what I said previously here.

@iiii I already saw loki season 2 and raised by wolves season 2. they just need to let shit march on instead of pretending that all happened in 2021. 10 years behind schedule.

@iiii you already saw these things too right ?

@AvatarOfKaine no

@iiii that's because they are guilty of something probably recent and think its a good idea to lie because they're stupid and think it will save them.

they need to have their crimean ass handed to them in pieces.

@AvatarOfKaine I have no idea what are you talking about.

We can make simple robot that senses touch, it's just a data for a computer. There's no way we can make him really feel it like we do, we don't even have evidence that someone else other than ourselves have real feelings or so called soul. Many people think other people are npcs walking around that more intelligent than in video game.

@Pogromist I had thought about simulating emotional responses and weighting the strength of previous reactions and memories to creating a multilayered response to affect decisions. motivation is effected often by perception of feasability and past obstacles one might expect to be in the same place again.

@Pogromist we do not have souls.

@iiii we don't know anything what we have or not

Why simulate it when you can just mock the results. 🤷‍♂️

@jAsE-cAsE there's no scientific evidence of that.

@jAsE-cAsE the Russel Teapot yet again 🤦‍♂️

@dontknowshit certainly behavioral conditional related to standard classical and operant conditiniong models could be made sense of that way, referring to the predictive model aspect.

not sure about the rest of that.

@Pogromist we can make them SIMULATE feeling though.

as we have evolved we associate certain feelings with different things as well as when we pair the source of touch.

in a sense we're just simulating feeling too.
our other nervous connections combine these and flip a switch in a sense that results in 'feel good, feels bad, feels pleasurable, feels sexual, feels digusting, feels potentially harmful.' etc.

@jAsE-cAsE yeah, yeah, now not accepting any fantastic bullshit is ignorance.