But still - why is consciousness required? Because a model of the World could be held even without it, in my view.
E.g., I wouldn't think GPT-4 is conscious, but I'm pretty sure there's a representation of abstract World and relationships within it following the neurons and weights. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to do much of it, that it is.
Also I think model of the World is just that - which can be represented as relationships between neurons, symbolising that model of the World.
And I think you can have a complex and a perfect set of neurons and their connections to represent everything in the most efficient manner for that size of parameters (neurons and connections together). There probably is the perfect configuration, but it couldn't even be achieved using training or evolutionary methods.
E.g., I wouldn't think GPT-4 is conscious, but I'm pretty sure there's a representation of abstract World and relationships within it following the neurons and weights. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to do much of it, that it is.
Also I think model of the World is just that - which can be represented as relationships between neurons, symbolising that model of the World.
And I think you can have a complex and a perfect set of neurons and their connections to represent everything in the most efficient manner for that size of parameters (neurons and connections together). There probably is the perfect configuration, but it couldn't even be achieved using training or evolutionary methods.
And none of it requires consciousness in my view.