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The Pong Imperative: Driving Dishbrain to Suicide. ['post by Peter Watts on a recent experiment suggesting a consciousness / intelligence link ]

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Ok, there was supposed to be text in the top near the link, there isn't, some I'm pasting the summary of the linked post here.

Peter Watts, the Canadian SF writer known for writing endearingly depressing SF books and promoting the idea consciousness is not essential to sentience has been forced to re-evaluate this position of his following a recent experiment by proponents of the Free Energy Model of consciousness.

Now it appears, at least to him, there may be an intrinsic link between subjective experience and problem solving by intelligent systems.

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promoting the idea consciousness is not essential to sentience

I'm assuming that in this reading "consciousness" is something like "human-level intelligence"? Because in my normal reading consciousness and sentience are near synonyms.

I should have written it better; he made a claim that the 'intelligences' is completely orthogonal to 'consciousness', and wrote a novel about how first contact between very intelligent but wholly non-conscious entities and 'humanity' would go.