I appreciate that. I'm just asking for an indirect declaration of inductive bias which would inform us about what these researchers could possibly prove about mind. E.g. are they going to fall into the camp which seems to say "Souls are hogwash but only humans have them." (sic.)
There is plenty of radical advance in the philosophy of mind available, but these radical ideas are not so easily assimilated. For example India has traditions thousands of years old which talk about several minds and not one mind. Here in the West we could have parallel theories about multiple minds based on our many programming paradigms. The former has had time but not success in gaining mind-share. The latter has had success but not time to gain maturity.
Our ideas about self (say collectivism vs. individualism) are a very strong inductive bias which inform the evolution of imagination. People are definitely interested in making advances in this field, or else no one would be asking if these ANNs are self-aware. I think we are in a race against the clock to provide good answers before any one meme just gains the upper hand.
Our milieu definitely shapes part of our mind, so now I'm wondering if those different cultural perspectives are due to different inner worlds?
And now I'm wondering if even consciousness might not generally exist ab initio in humans, but rather be something that is only brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation…
There is plenty of radical advance in the philosophy of mind available, but these radical ideas are not so easily assimilated. For example India has traditions thousands of years old which talk about several minds and not one mind. Here in the West we could have parallel theories about multiple minds based on our many programming paradigms. The former has had time but not success in gaining mind-share. The latter has had success but not time to gain maturity.
Our ideas about self (say collectivism vs. individualism) are a very strong inductive bias which inform the evolution of imagination. People are definitely interested in making advances in this field, or else no one would be asking if these ANNs are self-aware. I think we are in a race against the clock to provide good answers before any one meme just gains the upper hand.