Scientists can't define consciousness, yet we think AI will have it

Everyone’s talking about “conscious AI” or “emergent AGI,” but step back for a second — scientists still don’t have a working definition of what consciousness actually is.

Is it computation? Information integration? Or something else we can’t yet measure?

If we can’t define the target, how can we tell whether a machine has hit it?

Are we building intelligence, or just better mimicry?

(Genuinely curious how the HN crowd thinks about this — engineers, neuroscientists, philosophers all welcome.)

Posted by f_of_t