unembodied

There are no unembodied mental phenomenon reported or observed, nor can (you seem to conclude) there be such a report.

The creator of the knowledge argument, frank jackson, has since embraced materialism and therefore does not believe the knowledge argument is an impediment for unembodied AI.

Speaking frankly for unembodied: you just pull the plug.

Boltzmann brains have nothing to do with Schrödinger: statistical mechanics works fully classically, and nobody treats Boltzmann brains in a quantum mechanical way because a Boltzmann brain is an unembodied ephemeral human brain.

The lines between consciousness and knowledge seem blurred too since though we may have certain kinds of knowledge without embodiment (such as 2+2=4), other knowledge such as qualia [1] may be inaccessible to an unembodied agent.

The idea being that you will learn much more about someone / something if you ask questions that are anchored to a time and place rather than generic "unembodied" questions.

More generally Embodied/Unembodied AGI has been a common discussion theme for a long time, just as much as the theme of what the right mix is for supervised/unsupervised learning / a priori knowledge.

So the first question you list "Do you value code quality?" is an "unembodied question" and there is no hook for the person to dig into reality and give you an honest answer.

The idea of unembodied sentience adds a fun to wrinkle to things like the transporter scenario "all your matter got destroyed and rebuilt somewhere else, is it the same you?" For instance, there's the Star Trek style "transporter accident" but now with a clear mechanism: if you shut down the servers, dumped all the data, spun up a second copy, who's who?

The idea being that you will learn much more about someone / something if you ask questions that are anchored to a time and place rather than generic "unembodied" questions.

So the first question you list "Do you value code quality?" is an "unembodied question" and there is no hook for the person to dig into reality and give you an honest answer.

The idea of unembodied sentience adds a fun to wrinkle to things like the transporter scenario "all your matter got destroyed and rebuilt somewhere else, is it the same you?" For instance, there's the Star Trek style "transporter accident" but now with a clear mechanism: if you shut down the servers, dumped all the data, spun up a second copy, who's who?

More generally Embodied/Unembodied AGI has been a common discussion theme for a long time, just as much as the theme of what the right mix is for supervised/unsupervised learning / a priori knowledge.