Imagine a brain that spends its entire life in a jar. It's given whatever nutrients it needs to stay healthy, but it has no eyes, no ears, no mouth, no nose, no nerve endings. So it's never experienced any sensory input of any kind. It's never seen anything, never heard anything, can't learn a language to communicate.At say 30 years old, is it conscious?
>>16838859Maybe, but not in a human way.>no language>no visual/sensory thinking>no capacity of explain itself>no group reinforced thoughts (empathy, emotions, body communication, etc)>probably culled 99.99% of the neurons because they weren't trained as instendedIt would "rot".
>>16838859It's unlikely anything like a human brain would develop in such isolation. You'd end up with some clump of neurons lacking the neural pathways associated with consciousness, rendering the question moot.
>>16838859We trained the LLM on static. 4 googolian hours of static.It screams. A lot.
