AI megathread

What is it like to make a conscious decision? How do people make decisions? It happens unconsciously they only become aware of what rises into consciousness from unconscious processes - thoughts, emotions, impulses, sensory experiences, senses of self. You might feel like you are considering options and choosing one of them but where does the impulse to choose options come from? How do the options appear in consciousness? How is the decision to choose one of them made? Remember you can be wrong. Correct logic, right choice, are feelings like any other thought or emotion - that you can't control consciously. When you try to concentrate you get distracted you don't choose your emotions. You don't control your mind. Your mind is not you, thoughts and emotions etc are not yours. The fact that the brain is a biological machine subject to qm that might be manipulated by consciousness does not change this, the underlying reality is that the biological brain might just as well be a Turing machine for all the control over our thoughts and emotions and impulses we have.

And I did not say whether those unconscious processes are physical or immaterial processes, please do not hallucinate I am advocating materialism.

I assert we only make unconscious decisions. 

What makes us conscious is that we have subjective experience, awareness, qualia, not that we make decisions. What makes us conscious is something immaterial. Whether a person, animal or machine is conscious has to do with associated immateriality not with decision making.

The fact that a biological machine could be controlled by consciousness and a Turing machine could not be controlled by consciousness is not relevant to whether there is associated immateriality.