In this book, I argue that at least in principle, an AI system can be conscious. If you replace down neurons one at a time, say by silicon chips, if you're conscious at the beginning and the simulation is good enough, you'll have consciousness at the end. Most people think mice are conscious but they don't have full scale human level intelligence. Current models largely involve feed forward processing without much in the way of memory.

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