The Enigma of Consciousness: A Journey from Sensory Perception to Artificial Intelligence

We cannot deny that there are many external things and elements that our minds involuntarily associate with a specific type of experience or internal sensation. For example, but not limited to, the role of the effect of colors on us in many ways, such as red, for example, has been linked to danger, hunger, or love, so what are the reasons for this link?

Is it something that has already existed in our consciousness since time immemorial? Or is it something that is a product of the gradual evolution of human consciousness? And suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is really the product of gradual evolution, meaning that we have gone through several experiences that led to this connection, and it became one of the experiences of our awareness. And we can attribute the previous example of the red color to the time of our discovery of fire, which is often considered almost red, and we use it to cook food and what was hunted, so our mind associates the color of the fire with the readiness of food, thus the red color calls for hunger and yearning to eat...

And if we suppose that this link was previously found without our experiences, then this calls for a lot of questions. Does this mean that we are not responsible for what some external elements cause in our minds, and is it difficult to understand this link on a deeper level? And if that is the case, then it means that we do not and can not perceive and control our reality or even understand it beyond what has already been preinstalled in our minds.

Moving on to the second theory, begs the question: Is it possible to develop and create artificial consciousness, without resorting to subjecting it to acquired experience? In the sense that we develop and cultivate a consciousness with prior experience in artificial intelligence to simulate human consciousness because the second theory requires the artificial intelligence to develop this experience through gradual development, and to have the ability to link factors, and elements and generate experiences with internal and subjective feelings and emotions, as for relying on the example of the first theory to create artificial consciousness tends to impossibility, and that is because the first theory argues for the existence of consciousness it must exist beforehand or that it does not exist, it was found in us despite from the events and experiences we encountered in the journey of our evolution, it means that either it has existed since time immemorial or it never existed

But resorting to the second theory to find answers to such questions is no less difficult than the possibility of the first one because establishing an experience for the development of artificial consciousness requires us to have a great degree of understanding of the origin of the experiences of our consciousness and the way it develops and it links by causing some signals of the mind to produce feelings and certain emotions, and we are yet far from understanding such concepts, so the idea of developing and implanting artificial consciousness that is subject to a gradual evolution is still an idea far from our reality, but the mere fact that it is theoretically acceptable is a matter of interest and agitates the mind.

In general, we cannot -at least until now - be certain that consciousness and its experiences do not exist in artificial intelligence, just as we cannot be certain of its existence in the humans around us. It is not possible to prove the existence of your consciousness unless you and only you can feel it and are affected by what your consciousness is affected by from the outside world, so to prove the existence or non-existence of consciousness and its experiences in others aside from you, it will require your ability to be in the position of existence of those you want to prove the existence of their consciousness and to feel their experiences and to live all the effects projected on their consciousness, which must be then literally your consciousness.