![]() ![]() The AI then provides the experimental details. You have five years to provide a complete description of free will or, the exact border of Anna K.’s consciousness while she was in surgery, in Los Angeles, in 1996. ![]() It may start to wonder about the causal chain at the beginning of what feels to it like its thoughts and, realizing that humans only mobilize when catastrophe is imminent, it might give us an ultimatum: Likewise, as a thought experiment, let us imagine an AI closer to home and given planet-busting nukes that is taught the basics of existentialism and proceeds to become curious about itself. In the 1974 film Dark Star, an artificial intelligence is taught a few basics of René Descartes’s cogito, ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”) arguments and, after realizing that its purpose is simply to explode, the AI proceeds to ignore all further human commands and blows up itself, the ship, and the crew. (Drop both a pigeon and a bowling ball from a rooftop, for proof.) ![]() ![]() To build up a charge, a gradient, or natural selection, there needs to be some kind of a border, but physics and biology draw their borders differently. Where does a consciousness end and the rest of the world begin? Where is the line between inside and outside? Between life and not life? Between the parts of the universe that are conscious and those that are not? Between you and not you? ![]()
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