Proof That Consciousness can't be modeled
mathematicaly: replay argument
Let’s say
that the system is composed of “digital” neurons, where each of them
would be
determined by: input from other neurons, internal state, the
calculation it is
doing, and output it gives to other neurons. And because we assume it
is not
important how was the calculation made every neuron pk can
be
changed by any system which does some function yi=f(x1..xj).
Now, let’s say we are measuring each neuron
activity and
internal states for a 1 minute. And we get their inputs and outputs as
functions of time. After we got that all, we can replay what was
happening by:
Resetting
each neuron internal state to the
starting state, and replaying the inputs which come from outside of the
neural
net, and first inputs which come from inside of neural net (starting
state). As
the function is deterministic, everything will come out again as it was
the
first time. Would this system be conscious?
Reset
each neuron internal state to starting
state, then disconnect!! all the
neurons between each other, and replay the saved inputs to each of
them. Each
of the neurons would calculate the outputs it did, but as nobody would
“read
them”, they would serve no function in the functioning of the system,
actually
they wouldn’t matter! Would this system be conscious too?
Shut
down the calculations in each neuron (as
they are not important as seen is second scenario - because the outputs
of each
neuron are also not important for functioning of the system while the
replay).
We would give the inputs to each of the “dead” neurons (and probably we
would
wonder what we are doing). Would this system be conscious?
As
the input we would be giving to each of the
neurons actually doesn’t matter, we would just shut down the whole
neural net,
and read the numbers aloud. Would this system be conscious? Which
system?
So, in those examples we see (I hope clearly) that
if we
take information to be something which generates “consciousness”, by
going
through several steps of equivalent scenarios (in context of
information), we
get to last scenario where it is seen that not just the consciousness,
but the
system as well disappears if we presume that information is what is
making the
conscious system.
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