Interesting, but I think your theory goes a step or two too far. Language and consciousness, or our version of it, are intertwined; after all, we think in words. But consciousness exists independently of language. There are plenty of theories about this, as you probably know, but your take is original. I've read Jaynes's The Bicameral Mind which was along similar lines but ultimately wrong. Btw Ai isn't conscious and might never be in the human sense but the illusion of consciousness, the mimicry, is disturbing. We have to factor in our Anthropomorphism tendency: seeing us in everything else. You’re becoming an AI philosopher btw.
I find the pseudo-quasi-crypto-almost consciousness of AI more exciting than disturbing. An epochal moment in human history. The first time we encounter something as smart or smarter than us
Interesting, but I think your theory goes a step or two too far. Language and consciousness, or our version of it, are intertwined; after all, we think in words. But consciousness exists independently of language. There are plenty of theories about this, as you probably know, but your take is original. I've read Jaynes's The Bicameral Mind which was along similar lines but ultimately wrong. Btw Ai isn't conscious and might never be in the human sense but the illusion of consciousness, the mimicry, is disturbing. We have to factor in our Anthropomorphism tendency: seeing us in everything else. You’re becoming an AI philosopher btw.
I should say, I don’t think AI is conscious, yet!
I find the pseudo-quasi-crypto-almost consciousness of AI more exciting than disturbing. An epochal moment in human history. The first time we encounter something as smart or smarter than us
I get the excitement but