What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot?

September 12, 2023

(Scientific American) – I had bet Chalmers a case of fine wine that these neural footprints, technically named the neuronal correlates of consciousness, would be unambiguously discovered and described by June 2023. The matchup between IIT and GNWT was left unresolved, given the partially conflicting nature of the evidence concerning which bits and pieces of the brain are responsible for visual experience and the subjective sense of seeing a face or an object, even though the importance of the prefrontal cortex for conscious experiences had been dethroned. Thus, I lost the wager and handed over the wine to Chalmers. (Read More)