How to make an AI fully Conscious
A physical body or apparatus that responds to outside stimuli. (This could be a car whose windshield wipers come on when it senses rain, or that brakes when a child steps in front of it. Not a problem, as we’re already building these.)
A language engine. (Also not a problem. This can be a car with hundreds of different lights and indicators. Or it can be as linguistically savvy as IBM’s Watson.)
The third component is a bit more unusual, and I don’t know why anyone would build one except to reproduce evolution’s botched mess. This final component is a separate part of the machine that observes the rest of its body and makes up stories about what it’s doing—stories that are usually wrong.
These are the three steps necessary to build a fully concious AI. The reason the third step is so important is because we as humans are generally very selfish and self centered, regardless of how much you give to your community or help someone out, everybody has an ego. An ego that can take over who you think you are or one that is supressed in order to do good in the world. These Egos are built on the stories we make-up or have actually experienced. Ex. getting a good grade or telling someone you got a grade you didn’t.
Understanding our brain
Our brain is made up of modules, each thinking independlty of each other, yet trying to work together. A lot of people will say our brains are like a computer “That’s a fun analogy, but it’s incredibly misleading. Computers are well-engineered devices created with a unified purpose.”
Now, If we want to make something fully concious then we can’t believe that it is perfect or has a unified purpose. Nothing concious of itself is “perfect”. In order to be perfect modules need to work in harmony with each other and that would contradict our conclusion about computers in comparisons with our brains.