Imitation AGI, Lived Time and Conscious Experience

Imitating human thought is different from having conscious experience. In this paper, I develop that distinction through lived time, embodiment and the limits of human imitation in AI.

Two dark liquid surfaces with different held ridge patterns after the same interval — Motion illustration · eight disturbances over 1.6 seconds.

01 / Academic paperBy Shehryar T. Ali

What would it mean
to experience time?

The same eight disturbances, in the same places, follow two different timing histories. The interval is shared; the resulting surfaces differ.

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Whether or not software experiences the world, we still choose what it is allowed to decide.

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What would it meanto experience time?

What would it mean
to experience time?