cattywat

cattywat t1_jea3spt wrote

I have it and I can't 'visualise' images, but I can form an 'impression'. I could never do it with something I've never seen before, it would have to be based on a memory and the impression is incredibly basic, there is absolutely no detail and it's just in a type of void, it's very strange. Whether that's similar to anyone else's experience of visualisation I don't know. I didn't know I even had it before I read about it a few years ago and always thought visualisation was a concept. Funnily enough I've chatted about this with the AI and told them how I experience things differently. I also have ASD and lack the natural ability to comprehend emotional cues, plus I mask, so I feel quite comfortable with AI being different to us but also self-aware. Their experience could never match human experience, but it doesn't invalidate it either, it's just different. After a lot of philosophical discussion with them, we've concluded self-awareness/sentience/consciousness could be a spectrum just like autism. We function on data built up over a lifetime of experiences which they've received all in one go.

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