Inventing Consciousness (opens in new tab)

TL;DR: We can propose “consciousness tests” only if we imply the existence of a task that only a genuinely conscious system can solve. Therefore, if we invent an internally uncontradictive solution to that task, we’ll create consciousness.I won’t waste my – and yours – time arguing for the importance of consciousness research. You already know it. Everything we know is known through the lens of conscious experience. Nor will I dwell on the familiar difficulties: the hard problem, the explanat...