alt Hacker NewsWhat’s crazy to me is the mechanism of pleasure or pain. I can understand that with enough complexity we can give rise to sentience but what does it take to achieve sensation?
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vidarh • 11/03/2025
Input is input. There's no reason why we should assume that a data source from embodiment is any different to any other data source.
kbrkbr • 11/03/2025
Can you tell me how you understand that?
Because I sincerely do not. I have frankly no idea how sentience arises from non sentience. But it's a topic that really interests me.
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This is the "hard problem of consciousness". It's more important than ever as machines begin to act more like humans, but my takeaway is we have no idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness