Artificial vs. Synthetic Consciousness

[Tharindragalahena]

Synthetic intelligence is another term used for the artificial intelligence which gives the meaning that the intelligence of a machine doesn't need to be an imitation of the human intelligence, it can have a genuine form of intelligence off  its own.  It means that the machine would generate intelligence in their own way instead of duplicating how humans make decisions.
In this article a somewhat similar concept is discussed regarding the consciousness. In here the term synthetic consciousness is used in the sense that a machine can become conscious with different mechanisms rather than using the mechanisms of the human brain. But in artificial consciousness the machine is created by directly simulating or duplicating the human brain.

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