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reconditedreams t1_j285ng2 wrote

Reply to comment by Mental-Swordfish7129 in Is AGI really achievable? by Calm_Bonus_6464

This is a good point. I would recommened anyone interested in this difference between subjective understanding and functional understanding read "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. It's an interesting hard sci-fi novel which explores the nature of sentience and subjective awareness.

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Mental-Swordfish7129 t1_j288pnc wrote

Blindsight, the cognitive impairment, has always intrigued me. It's kind of spooky to think that probably "someone" that is not "you" is "experiencing vision" through "your" eyes while "you" sit in the dark.

It's astonishing what we have learned from these brain injuries and split-brain studies and such.

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