I remember reading something like this somewhere: "It is not true anymore that only phenomenal minds can understand the world. Superintelligence will be fully conscious and supersentient."
To what extent will artificial general intelligence be able to have first-person experience and what does this mean and imply for the non-biological system that implements/possesses it?
As experience denotes interaction on a number of levels with variable meaning sets-very soon!
It has been proposed that the first person experience is very much related to having embodied experience; the feeling that I am my body who takes up a space in the environment with which I interact. The bodily experience requires not only exteroceptive senses (sensing stimuli from outside of the body) and proprioceptive senses, but also interoceptive senses (sensing stimuli from inside the body, consciously or unconsciously), and the integration of these from which a kind of (self)consciousness emerges. Can AI do this? Are there robotic equivalents to sensing changes in heartbeat, feeling hungry or thirsty, feeling tired, needing to urinate, feeling pain etc? Do they serve an equivalent vital function that interoception serves in humans and other animals (in its most basic form: homeostasis)?
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