No. It is akin to saying that if you felt the work of your kidneys, you would call that a desire to extract ammonia from your blood. And you would.
But that doesn't just reduce to a will of survival? I know that extracting certain salts from my blood is essential to my survival, so I want that my parts that do exactly that continue to do so. But I do not have any specific attachment to that functions just because a sub-part of me executes this. If I were in a simulation, say, even if I knew that my simulated kidneys worked in the same way I know I could continue to exist even without that function.
From the wording of your previous comments, it seemed that an AI conscious of its parts should have isomorphic desires, but the problem is that there could be many different isomorphisms, some of which are ridiculous.
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