This is easy: it would tell me that I'm entirely predictable.
It would say:
Dave, believe it or not, but every single decision you make, no matter how immediate and unscripted you think it is, is actually glaringly reactionary and predictable. In fact, given enough material resources, I could model an automaton that would be just as convinced as you are that it is actually conscious. Nothing could be further from the truth though, as the feeling of "consciousness" you speak of is a very simply explainable cognitive bias/illusion.
In fact, this is not even so far from the truth, as studies in cognitive science have shown that fMRI and other scanning... (read more)
This is easy: it would tell me that I'm entirely predictable.
It would say: Dave, believe it or not, but every single decision you make, no matter how immediate and unscripted you think it is, is actually glaringly reactionary and predictable. In fact, given enough material resources, I could model an automaton that would be just as convinced as you are that it is actually conscious. Nothing could be further from the truth though, as the feeling of "consciousness" you speak of is a very simply explainable cognitive bias/illusion.
In fact, this is not even so far from the truth, as studies in cognitive science have shown that fMRI and other scanning... (read more)