Just to flesh out the point about Einstein above - we didn’t know Newton’s laws were limited until we thought of testing it on things where they failed dramatically. So you could say they aren’t just limited or only narrowly applicable, they are flat out wrong if you’re trying to truly objectively describe the material world. We don’t have a unified field theory, so we use them, and Einstein, and quantum physics, because they all have applications in specific areas, but are all ultimately incomplete and therefore wrong.
What sorts of tests can we run on a consciousness to determine its limitations, or at least if it’s just a simulation? If a simulation of consciousness is equivalent to Newton’s laws, it will be “good enough” to fool people until they know what are the failure points - what challenges to pit it against that cannot be navigated by a simulation. What would be the equivalent of Einstein or quantum physics when it comes to testing a consciousness?
Right now no one really knows - the Turing Test is pretty vague and meaningless, all you’re asking is to fool a group of people in a random conversation. Well, newton’s laws fooled a lot of people and scientists whose “conversation with those laws” didn’t include galaxies or atoms, and as soon as it did, things changed. I wonder if it’s possible to have something equivalent as a test of consciousness that we humans could figure out?
What sorts of tests can we run on a consciousness to determine its limitations, or at least if it’s just a simulation? If a simulation of consciousness is equivalent to Newton’s laws, it will be “good enough” to fool people until they know what are the failure points - what challenges to pit it against that cannot be navigated by a simulation. What would be the equivalent of Einstein or quantum physics when it comes to testing a consciousness?
Right now no one really knows - the Turing Test is pretty vague and meaningless, all you’re asking is to fool a group of people in a random conversation. Well, newton’s laws fooled a lot of people and scientists whose “conversation with those laws” didn’t include galaxies or atoms, and as soon as it did, things changed. I wonder if it’s possible to have something equivalent as a test of consciousness that we humans could figure out?