1. What, exactly, do you mean by "consciousness"?
2. What is the difference between "having" consciousness and "simulating" it?
2. What is the difference between "having" consciousness and "simulating" it?
Awareness, memory, leaning, anticipation and subjective experience.
Empathy is a good example, will a computer ever "feel" empathy? Or will it be simulated empathy? Is there actually a distinction? I'm not sure.