But Neuromancer's assertion that a self-conscious AI's thoughts would be inherently unreadable by AI's sharing the same hardware is nonsense. Reading and even altering AI thoughts is eminently possible. It is the possession or experience of its self aware singularity that is impossible, outside a supernatural act.
A thought process, whether represented through neurons, binary, or written out on paper, is unrelated to consciousness, which by definition contains nothing other than what it is aware of. Hence consciousness is neither matter nor energy, and no arrangement of either is its sufficient cause, however much customary experience indicates it a necessary one.
The existence of an a-natural mode of existence, i.e. consciousness, and the apparent construction of a link between it and the physical world, imply a whole gradation of epistemological reality between the two, which this bridge must traverse. What form the beings of such planes may take, and how such entities might impinge on the meatish mind of man, is the stuff of man's oldest nightmares.
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