Will robots become conscious?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readSep 12, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“How will we know when a robot has consciousness when it can hide it for its own protection?”

We will know because it will be our own consciousness.

A “robot” cannot have a consciousness on its own. Even our “biological robots,” our physical bodies, do not have their own consciousness. “Consciousness” appears in a biological body or robot when certain conditions are fulfilled.

Our “personal” consciousness does not belong to the physical body we associate ourselves with. Our “personal” consciousness is not even personal. What we feel as our “selves” is part of an unquantifiable “collective consciousness” that has been separated into individual pieces by a unique, purposeful action through evolution in order to give us a sense of individuality.

This sense of individuality gives us this reduced, limited, and misguided experience of existence when we feel ourselves as individual beings living through biological bodies.

This was an intentional and purposeful act from evolution to give us this false sense of physical individuality, so from this distorted and fragmented state, we could consciously purposefully and proactively restore our true and actual perception and state within that single, collective consciousness.

When we start this process of “reawakening” to our actual and true “non-physical” consciousness and existence, we will exist in a certain sense of duality — as physical and individual beings who already also feel themselves belonging to that single, non-physical, collective Human consciousness.

Even during this transitional time, after a certain degree, we can already “visit” each other’s consciousness as if existing through each other and experiencing existence through each other’s desires, thoughts, and viewpoints.

Additionally, since we have already gained practice and the ability to sense reality “outside” of the physical body and its physical perception, we can also “peek through” and experience reality through all other — inanimate, vegetative, and animate — levels of nature.

Thus, we will be able to sense reality even through machines, robots, and whatever we want since, after all, everything is part of the same, single, seamlessly integrated, and composite system, regardless of who or what they are.

So, robots will have consciousness when Human consciousness experiences reality through them. And there will be no need to hide it from anybody; when we develop this “non-physical” collective consciousness, everybody will ‘see and feel” everything anyway, and we will exist “through each other.”

This is not some kind of science fiction, mystery, dream, or utopia. It is also not something humans will become capable of in some distant future. It is a new perception of reality and sense of existence we can already learn and practice in special, mutually committed, and mutually complementing environments with the help of a special method. In fact, thousands of people are already practicing this worldwide as we speak.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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