Don’t be deceived by philosophical materialism. AI will never be conscious. It’s the pure fantasy of a distorted understanding of consciousness. All fantasies that AI will become conscious remain unsupported by any science we know. The emergent brain hypothesis of consciousness is unsupported science, and specific theories arsing from it such as integrated information theory (IIT) are unsupported theories. An unsupported theory means it is based in conjecture, not actual scientific evidence. The whole conjecture that AI will become conscious is a craze of our current computer era. Computers can beat us a chess, therefore they can become conscious. Right. Computers can have a soul. Right. These are fantasies of materialism. These are science fiction.
Science doesn’t know what consciousness even is, let know how computers can become conscious. That’s a fact. I can prove it by asking for the evidence. There is none. The fantasy the computers will become conscious is an easy sell because of the widespread influence of scientific materialism. I believe scientific materialism will eventually die out as we understand more about consciousness and absorb the lessons of relativity and quantum theory as they replace the classical physics of matter as we knew it in the past. We can no longer say that everything is made of matter. We don’t actually know what the universe is made of.
AI craziness is widespread because scientific materialism is not yet dead. This is shown in fact that we are obsessed with asking when AI will become conscious. This questions has been asked hundreds of times in hundreds of different ways before on Quora, as shown in the following:
Will human consciousness ever be transferable to a new body or a machine (e.g. a robot, cyborg, computer, or avatar)? Can you transfer your ow…
How close are we to sentient robots?
Do you think we will ever build self-aware androids like in the alien universe?
Is it possible to build a computer with self awareness?
How far are we from creating a self-aware computer system (the Singularity)?
Do you believe robots will ever gain consciousness?
How can robots become self-aware?
Would there ever be sentient / self aware computers?
Is consciousness a simulation?
How could you replicate consciousness in a computer?
Will consciousness ever be replicated artificially?
Could the simulation of conscious by AI be equivalent to consciousness itslelf?
Can neural networks create consciousness?
Could consciousness become an emergent property of neural networks?
How can we create artificial creatures using neural networks?
Do robots have feelings?
Do you believe robots will ever gain consciousness?
Could the simulation of conscious by AI be equivalent to consciousness itslelf?
Since the human brain is basically a biochemical machine, is it possible that scientists could create a robot that is self aware, conscious?
Is self aware Artificial Intelligence possible?
Can we create conscious machines today?
Is it possible for robots or machines to overthrow humans?
Should robots be self aware?
Are humans biochemical quantum mechanical machines?
When will AI gain consciousness?
Can a robot ever become sentient? How?
Is it possible to create a robot which has feelings like a human?
How close are we to sentient robots?
Do you think we will ever build self-aware androids like in the alien universe?
Is it possible to build a computer with self awareness?
How far are we from creating a self-aware computer system (the Singularity)?
Is self aware Artificial Intelligence possible?
How long will it take for AI to become self aware?
In how many years will computers become self-aware?
… and on and on and on and on, etc., etc, etc. It’s the same silly question.
If you think you can refute my answer please provide supporting evidence only. It is not enough to cite conjecture, speculation, beliefs, or even alleged authorities like Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, etc., who are in the business of scientific materialism. Only hard scientific evidence, please.