If the hard problem of consciousness is solved, what will be true of it?

6.3kṀ6614

2050

81%

It will allow to predict in advance whether a given intelligence architecture will be sentient

64%

It will be solved by AI

63%

It will open a new seemingly unsolvable problem

60%

It will be shown that every intelligence is sentient to some extent

60%

The methods developed to solve the problem will be proven to be useful to approach other seemingly unsolvable problems (such as why does reality exist rather non-exist?)

59%

It will be shown that for any level of intelligence, a non-sentient intelligence can exist

50%

Retrospectively, the solution will look relatively trivial and such that it could have been found much earlier by much smaller efforts

49%

The process of understanding its solution by a median human will take less time than it takes for a median human to successfully complete undergrad 1-year calculus course

44%

The solution will be formally accepted, but the consensus will be that no one understands the “intuition behind it”

40%

It will be shown that the higher is the level of intelligence, the harder it is to construct a non-sentient intelligence

40%

The full set of all possible qualia will be derived from it

39%

It will be solved within the standard modern scientific framework and scientific method understanding

38%

It will require some paradigm shift in logic/epistemology/scientific method

37%

It will be shown that some sufficiently high level of intelligence requires sentience