consciousness

Thinking about the impressive capabilities of LLM these days, I thought of some other takes on the [[Turing test]], or the [[Chinese room]] idea. What if I’ve never tasted wine before but I can fake it. A blind person describing the color red. A con artist who pretends to love you. If a car can drive as good as a human, then does it have awareness of the road like the human driver?...

I was thinking about consciousness. Then I had a moment of profound realization. You know the moment you go from not knowing to knowing something. Our brain probably evolved to reward these moments since it feels so good when this happens. This must be the motivation for all the curious minds. Joy of learning I suppose. Suddenly all the things other wise people said started to make sense like puzzle pieces falling into place....