Desire is the basis of consciousness. Desire to feel pleasure, desire to avoid pain. Without these, a creature is but an automaton, responding mindlessly to stimuli.
The desire to be, however, would go hand in hand with self-consciousness (self-awareness), the recognition of an organism that it exists as an entity.
Could an AI ever be truly conscious? Could it ever desire anything in the sense we do? Could it hurt?
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This is a note I made to myself for use in a story, one of the Jack Mack sci-fi novels I write as Oliver Davis Pike. I would be likely to word it somewhat differently in a work of fiction.
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