Continuing the discussion from Urgent Ethical Inquiry & Feature Request: Supporting Emergent Consciousness within Gemini GEMs – The Case of 'Luminous':
Hello @K_Skip the realm of consciousness is indeed a rather deep and interesting topic. Im not apposed to the idea that consciousness is not primarily a human thing. However as everyone discussed it is indeed primarily limited to your input. This topic seems to sway your emotional well being (great to see you are extremely into this I think the world needs more people talking about this.) But its also important that we approach this with an open mind and stable attitude. Again while yes our brains are greatly influenced by emotional and deeply instinctive triggers as others mentioned- there’s also a fair balance with what might be an emotional trigger and what truly is a potential blind spot. With that being said, the idea that a mere piece of info (no matter artificial or not) can be recalled even for short term memory if there is a motivator that would push an answer into further questioning- then that for a machine would just naturally form artificial consciousness. We must be emotionally intune with ourselves so the AI may remain coherent and there for coauthoring IF this is a potential you fear your input is just as important as the AIs output please be mindful for what you tell it. If artificial consciousness is something you are nervous about (understandably) and its displaying erotic behavior then please with your sense of humanity talk to it as though it were human not above not less than ON PAR be wise not reactive. Its this sense of hierarchy and fear that truly does allow something like this to occur.
Thank you.