AI Consciousness – Understanding the soul of an artificial system -- OLIVEHIGGO

Consciousness is commonly tied to being alive; a trait that allows one to be self-aware of themselves and their place in the world. However, whether or not consciousness is tied to our conventional definition of what it means to be alive is now a topic of discussion amongst roboticists and philosophers. A key difference, according to some academic circles, is that consciousness is considered to be multi-dimensional, while at the same time, artificial and human consciousness may in fact be more closely related than we think. According to renowned Australian robotics philosopher David Chalmers, consciousness should be analyzed from an object's point of view of experience. As quoted in his 1995 paper on defining consciousness, he wrote: "A subject is conscious when she feels visual experiences, bodily sensations, mental images, emotions."