Consciousness indicators, mimicry, and internal variants (opens in new tab)

In a recent article on methods for assessing artificial intelligence (AI) systems for consciousness, we argued that computational properties of internal processing should be used as indicators [1]. Commenting on our proposal, Pennartz argues that this method ‘should be supplemented with behavioural-cognitive methods’ (p. 1) because there is no consensus theory of consciousness [2]. We agree that the lack of a consensus theory of consciousness makes it more important to use every available sou...