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scarmig 19 hours ago

Embodiment doesn't exist, even in regular humans. We do not have direct access to reality; we have sensory inputs that are much lower bandwidth than one might expect but correlate with external events, and our brain uses them to form rich world models that are usefully predictive. Most of the world we experience is just in our head.

logicallee 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I get what you're saying (mostly based on low bandwidth from sensory organs as opposed to direct access to reality), but your conclusion that we therefore don't have embodiment goes very far. It would be like saying planes don't really fly, since they fly by wire and only have limited inputs and outputs, rather than direct access to reality itself. Well, yeah, they fly using sensors rather than knowing reality itself, but they're still flying. Humans still obviously have embodiment.

tim333 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not quite sure of the definitions but with sentience I have

>Subjective Experience: Involves raw sensory awareness rather than complex abstract thought

On that current AI is a bit lacking as they don't have very good sensors whereas human brains are pretty wired up for touch, smell, sight, sound and the like. AIs do get linked to cameras though and could improve a lot in those directions.

yladiz 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Define “direct”, “access”, and “reality”.