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Murray Shanahan: What are Conscious Exotica? Consciousness, AI & the Space of Possible Minds

Mind-Body Solution

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Conscious Exotica & Wittgenstein

  • Shanahan's 'Conscious Exotica' paper explores the possibility of consciousness we can't understand.
  • This challenges Wittgensteinian views, which reject dualistic implications of inaccessible subjective experience.
  • If something is so different from us that we can't grasp it, the concept of consciousness may not apply.
  • 'Consciousness' is a human tool, not an objective external entity.
  • We struggle to overcome the intuition that subjective experience is an objective fact.
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