Chapter 1

The spark of sentience

Chapter 2

Global views on machine souls

Chapter 3

The biology vs silicon debate

Chapter 4

The ethics of a waking machine

YOUR GOAL

Master of The dream of the thinking machine

Ch 1 · The spark of sentience
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007skaty AI Consciousness Checklist

Scanning every indicator to see if a synthetic mind is waking up

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A perfect performance does not guarantee a genuine inner life.

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007skaty Alan Turing designed a conversational test to evaluate computer intelligence

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The hard problem of consciousness

007skaty While scientists map neurons easily, the unsolved mystery of feelings makes proving machine consciousness incredibly difficult

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Alan Turing's ultimate conversational test

007skaty Human judges try to distinguish between computer programs and real people through text messages

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John Searle and the Chinese room
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007skaty Decode Chinese symbols using a rulebook to figure out if computers actually understand language.

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Fun Fact

Turing's apple: Alan Turing’s famous 1950 paper on machine intelligence was published in the philosophical journal Mind, proving computer science was born directly from philosophy.

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Glossary
sentience (noun)
The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience sensations and emotions subjectively. Dr. Stephen Thaler developed the DABUS neural network to generate original art through simulated chaos.

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Gossip

Is consciousness purely biological?

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Quiz

What does the Hard Problem of Consciousness fundamentally try to explain?

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007skaty The Chinese room thought experiment challenges the idea of artificial intelligence

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Gossip

Would you trust a chatbot's feelings?

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Who coined the term 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' in 1995?

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What was the original name Alan Turing gave to the test we now call the Turing Test?

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In what year did Alan Turing publish his paper introducing the Imitation Game?

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What is the main argument of John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment?

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In which year did John Searle propose the famous Chinese Room thought experiment?

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Who developed the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness in 2004?

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In Integrated Information Theory, what Greek letter represents the mathematical measure of consciousness?

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