When Laws Contraindicate

Revisiting Asimov in the Age of AI

God’s Immovable Rock Paradox

Organic creatures have consciousness but no awareness. LLM the awareness, they can be hyper-attentive casting attention to many things, but no consciousness. For awareness, all you need is attention; for consciousness, all you need is the binding of experiences across time, senses, memory, and self-model — integration (or integral emergent identity (IEI) — information weaving a story of identity). — Re: A bite at the forbidden fruit from the Tree of `consciousness` (Genesis 3:22: “Now, they are like us …”), 2025–05.24

There is a troubling paradox with getting premises to work with each other soundly without contradictions and contraindications.

The Laws of Robotics states that 
First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Fourth Law: A robot or AI must not deceive a human by impersonating a human being.